Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability

We have a number of confirmed webinars for 2021 including

• Roger Curen (Psychotherapist, ex-director Respond) on forensic work with People with learning disabilities
• Dr Noelle Blackman (Director, Respond), on families and people with a learning disability
• Florian Schwanninger (historian, director Hartheim centre) on the T4 programme

These will be confirmed nearer the time

The webinars will be for an hour and there will be time for questions. Also, can I ASK, as we are a small organisation, we would appreciate a donation – which you can do via the website.

Please be aware we recording our webinars and also looking at revamping our website, once it is revamped, we are hoping to publish the recordings on the website.


 

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. 

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.