Valerie Sinason PhD

Valerie Sinason PhD

Valerie Sinason PhD, MACP, M Inst Psychoanal

Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. A member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she helped to pioneer the field of disability psychotherapy and served as founding President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. She is also the founder of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London and has worked extensively with severely traumatised individuals suffering from dissociative identity disorder. Previously, Dr Sinason worked as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic,the Portman Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre, and St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the University of London.

Her many books include Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: New Approaches from the Tavistock, now in its second edition, and also The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask.

 

Online Modules

Talks On Demand

Past and Current Confer Events

 

Postgraduate Training in Psychopathology
Deep CPD

The Voiceless and Unheard
Saturday 6 July 2019

Confer’s 20th Anniversary Conference!
Saturday 24 November 2018

Dissociative Identities
Saturday 10 March 2018

Dissociative Identities
Saturday 9 December 2017

Psychotherapy is a Cultural Issue
Saturday 22 April 2017

My Most Remarkable Session
Saturday 14 January 2017

Working Psychotherapeutically with Sadism
Friday 7 November 2014

The challenges of working with dissociative disorders
Monday 30 June 2014

The Impossible Profession?
Monday 24 March 2014

Trauma Skills
Wednesday evenings 18 January – 28 March 2012

Trauma Skills School – Edinburgh
Monday 5 – Friday 9 July 2010

Is There Such a Thing as an Impossible Patient? – A Seminar Series for Psychotherapists
Monday evenings 27 September to 6 December 2010

Psychological Trauma and the Child
Thursday 18, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September 2008

Trauma Skills Summer School
Monday 5 – Friday 9 July 2010

Contemporary Views on Working with Transference
5 June, 26 June, 25 September & 6 November 2010

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