Angelina Veiga, DProf Psych Psych, is a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Adult Psychotherapist, Disability Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Researcher and Visiting Lecturer. A Disability Psychotherapist for over 20 years, she is a longstanding trustee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability and a founding member of Disability Psychotherapy Ireland.

Valerie Sinason, PhD is a poet, writer, lecturer, largely clinically retired adult psychoanalyst and President of the IPD. Having specialised in disability and trauma for 40 years, she has published or edited 25 books and over 250 papers and chapters. She was given the ISSTD Life Achievement Award in 2017 and the 2022 Innovative Excellent Award from the BPC.

Introduction

Valerie Sinason and Angelina Veiga

Section A: History of Disability Psychotherapy

1. Implications for Training: How the Principles of Disability Psychotherapy Can Be Integrated Into Mainstream Psychotherapy Training

David O'Driscoll

2. Three Magnificent Women and One Lovestruck Man: The Professionalism of Disability Psychotherapy

Brett Kahr

3. How Working with Disabled People Can Make Us Better Psychotherapists

Shula Wilson

Section B: Working as a Disability Psychotherapist

4. Du Sei Wie Du about Love and Passion

Johan De Groef

5. Seeking Custody, Post Custody: Applying Disability Psychotherapy Thinking in the Criminal Justice System

Richard Curen

6. The Respond Model of Disability Psychotherapy: The Attachment-Based Systems Approach

Noelle Blackman, Jess Lammin, Jasmine Hill and Rosie Creer

7. From Trauma to Creative Integration: Disability Psychotherapy and the Evolution of a Systemic Model of Trauma Treatment for Vulnerable Children and Adults

Eimir McGrath

8. Becoming a Disability Psychotherapist

Angelina Veiga

Section C: Applications of Disability Psychotherapy

9. Understanding the Effects of Trauma in People with Intellectual Disability: Looking at Diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Georgina Parkes

10. Relationship, Imagination, Justice and Hope: Throughlines in Child Psychotherapy, Trauma, Learning Disability and Social Exclusion

Tasmin Cottis

11. In Search of Eclecticism as a Means to Navigate the Complexities of Disability Psychotherapy

Nancy Sheppard

12. Treating Psychosis with Respect

Elspeth Bradley

13. Therapy with Dr Alan Corbett

François Marshall and Marvin Marshall-Springer

Epligoue

Valerie Sinason