Disability Psychotherapy

What It Is and Why It Matters

Angelina Veiga, Valerie Sinason

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30 September 2025

Disability: social aspects; Psychotherapy

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.

Edited by: Angelina Veiga, Valerie Sinason
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041086116
ISBN 10: 1041086113
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction Section A: History of Disability Psychotherapy 1. Implications for Training: How did the Principles of Disability Psychotherapy Can Be Integrated Into Mainsteram Psychotherapy Training 2. Three Magnificent Women and One Lovestruck Man: The Professionalisation of Disability Psychotherapy 3. How Working with Disabled People Can Make Us Better Psychotherapists Section B: Working as a Disability Psychotherapist 4. Du Sei Wie Du about Love and Passion 5. Seeking Custody, Post Custody: Applying Disability Psychotherapy Thinking in the Criminal Justice System 6. The Respond Model of Disability Psychotherapy - The Attachment-Based Systems Approach 7. From Trauma to Creative Integration. Disability Psychotherapy and the Evolution of a Systemic Model of Trauma Treatment for Vulnerable Children and Adults 8. Becoming a Disability Psychotherapist 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 10. Relationship, Imagination, Justice and Hope: Throughlines in Child Psychotherapy, Trauma, Learning Disability and Social Exclusion 11. Relationship, Imagination, Justice and Hope: Throughlines in Child Psychotherapy, Trauma, Learning Disability and Social exclusion in Search of Eclecticism as a Means to Navigate the Complexities of Disability Psychotherapy 12. Treating Psychosis with Respect 13. Therapy with Dr Alan Corbett Epilogue

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).

Reviews for Disability Psychotherapy: What It Is and Why It Matters

'I congratulate and thank all the people who have contributed to this volume. The work has come on so far since we started the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability and yet access to disability therapy remains poor. This book will add weight to the arguments for making disability psychotherapy available to all who need it, and as a specific training for dedicated therapists. Well done and thank you!' Pat Frankish , founder member, Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability; past President of the British Psychological Society 'The authors of this wonderful book carry on the proud tradition begun by the Founders of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, inspiring hope where there is often therapeutic nihilism, and understanding where there is often denial.' Baroness Sheila Hollins, former President of the Royal College of Psychiatry 'Learning disabled people do have minds and can benefit cognitively and emotionally from a specialized form of psychotherapy. This is a wonderful and revelatory book.' Anne Alvarez