Unexpected Gains: Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities

by David Simpson (Editor), Lynda Miller (Editor)

Overview

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited counselling. The papers collected here have evolved from the work of the pioneering Learning Disabilities Service at the Tavistock Clinic, London, which is made up from specialised professionals from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, child and adolescent psychotherapy, adult psychotherapy and social work. The service mainly offers individual psychotherapy but also provides group work, parent work, family therapy and consultative work with professionals where necessary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855759640
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2004
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Series Editor's Preface	xi
	About the Editors and Contributors	xiii
	Introduction	xix
Chapter 1	The psychotherapy of a little girl with a severe learning disability and a history of deprivation and neglect	1
Chapter 2	Therapeutic dilemmas when working with a group of children with physical and learning disabilities	14
Chapter 3	Some thoughts on psychotherapeutic work with learning-disabled children and their parents from orthodox religious communities	30
Chapter 4	Facing the damage together: some reflections arising from the treatment in psychotherapy of a severely mentally handicapped child	45
Chapter 5	Learning disability as a refuge from knowledge	69
Chapter 6	Adolescents with learning disabilities: psychic structures that are not conducive to learning	83
Chapter 7	The creative use of limited language in psychotherapy by an adolescent with a severe learning disability	98
Chapter 8	The question of a third space in psychotherapy with adults with learning disabilities	112
Chapter 9	When there is too much to take in: some factors that restrict the capacity to think	122
Chapter 10	An exploration of severe learning disability in adults and the study of early interaction	133
Chapter 11	The endings of relationships between people with learning disabilities and their keyworkers	149
Chapter 12	Ensuring a high-quality service: clinical audit, quality assurance, and outcome research in the Tavistock Clinic Learning Disabilities Service	167
	References	187
	Index	197