Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability
IPD Webinars in December
BOOK OFFER 
After Simon Jarrett fascinating webinar based on his new book, the publishers are offering IPD members a discount, see below. I’ve just started it and I can assure you it is quite extraordinary if you’re interested in the history of people with a learning disability it’s an must-read.
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Simon Jarrett
Special offer for members!
20% off the published price with the discount code IPD20 when ordering from the Reaktion Books website.
To order please click HERE
PREVIOUS WEBINARS
15th December 2020
Stephen Unwin (Playwright, parent, campaigner and writer) will be in discussion with David O’Driscoll. Stephen will be reflecting on his experiences as a parent of a person with learning disabilities as well as his writing, which includes a couple of play’s concerned with learning disabilities and Stephen is currently researching a history of people with a learning disability.
www.stephenunwin.uk
1st December 2020
Dr Roger Banks (National Clinical Director, Learning Disability and Autism, NHS England and NHS Improvement) will be in discussion with David O’Driscoll.
Dr Banks was also a founder member of the IPD. He will be reflecting on his lifetime work in services for people with Learning disabilities.
Webinars in November
24th November 2020 
Dr Sara Ryan (Social Scientist, University of Oxford, mother, campaigner and author) will be in discussion with David O’Driscoll on her new book Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance. How practitioners can make a difference to the lives of children, families, and adults. (2021).
“Beautifully written and absorbing, Love Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance shines a joyful light on the kind of good support that enables people to flourish.”
Saba Salman, (Guardian, Journalist)
Click here for a link to Dr Ryans book
Tuesday 3rd November
Dr Valerie Sinason will be discussing her new book, The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation. Everything you didn’t want to know and were afraid to ask. (2020). Confer Books, with David O’Driscoll (IPD Chair).
Dr Susie Orbach has said of the book, “In plain language, she enables us to see forms of cruelty and the psychic consequences which lead to the extreme splitting of psyches into dissociated and multiple self-states.”
I will be discussing this important new book with IPD’s most senior clinician.
https://www.confer.uk.com/confer-books.html
I think it is a fitting way to end this years successful set of webinars.
Webinars in September/October
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Death, Loss and Learning Disability in a Pandemic
Tuesday 28th July 1300 to 1400
Death, Loss and Learning Disability in a Pandemic: David O’Driscoll Chair of IPD, Meeting to be chaired by Dr Georgina Parkes Treasurer of IPD.
In this hour webinar, I want to think about the current ‘Covid-19’ pandemic, and how this affects people with learning disabilities. In particularly the anxieties around death, dying and loss, this moment brings up.
Dr Georgina Parkes will chair the Webinar and David O’Driscoll will be delivering the session via a PowerPoint.
email admin@instpd.org.uk for zoom details 
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7816356814?pwd=YTVmc1JaUUtJd0xiU29BZUgxUG1tQT09
Tuesday 28th July 1pm – 2pm
Meeting ID: 781 635 6814
Password: Psych1
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