Disability therapy and Valerie Sinason.

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the work of Dr Valerie Sinason and her contribution to working with people with an intellectual disability with psychotherapy. Design/methodology/approach: Dr Valerie Sinason is a psychoanalyst, and the author is trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Findings: The author believes there is important value in reading Valerie Sinason's contribution to the literature of psychotherapy with people with intellectual disabilities. Originality/value: It is a review of Sinason's contribution, and the author believes she's very original and important thinker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]