Disability Psychotherapy: What It Is and Why It Matters - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1041086091 ISBN 13: 9781041086093

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities.

Over three parts, the book explores the history of disability psychotherapy, working as a disability psychotherapist and applications of disability psychotherapy. The contributors, representing a range of approaches, describe the practice of disability psychotherapy through clinical material, discuss their experiences of working in the field and reflect on their learnings. The book also considers the contributions of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, and how relational attachment work with patients, colleagues, research and clinical writing creates a thriving community.

Disability Psychotherapy will be of interest to experienced and student psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, counsellors, educators, carers, parents, advocates and anyone who is concerned about widening access for people with disabilities and their networks to high quality psychotherapy treatment.

About this title

About the Author

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 (IPD) 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 International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Life Achievement Award in 2017 and the 2022 Innovative Excellent Award from the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).

From the Back Cover

Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1041086091
• ISBN 13: 9781041086093
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Veiga Angelina, Sinason Valerie