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
Saturday 6 July 2019 - London
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