Reading List: Learning Disability; Sexual Abuse; Psychotherapy

Learning Disability and Abuse

• Brown, H. Report on the Kent Study (NAPSAC Bulletin No 3. March, 1993)
• Brown H. and Craft A. (Eds) Thinking the Unthinkable (FPA Education Unit, 2001)
• Groef J. & Heinemann E. Psychoanalysis and Mental Handicap (Routledge, 1999)
• Niedecken, D.  Nameless: Understanding Learning Disability (Routledge, 2003)
• Sobsey, D. Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities: The End of Acceptance (Brookes, 1994)

   

Learning Disability and Therapy

• Alvarez A. Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children (Brunner-Routledge, 2002)
• Blackman, N. Loss and Learning Disability (Worth Publishing, 2003)
• Corbett, A. Cottis, T. Morris S. Witnessing, Nurturing, Protesting (D. Fulton , 1996)
• Conboy-Hill S. and Waitman A. Psychotherapy and Mental Handicap (Sage, 1991)
• Hollins, S. et al., I Can Get Through This ( St. George’s Hospital , Books without Word Series) plus others in the “Books without Words” Series
• Hodges S. Counselling Adults with Learning Disabilities (Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series Ed Frosh, S. 2002)
• Jacobsen, P. Aspergers Syndrome and Psychotherapy: Understanding Asperger Perspectives (Jessica Kingsley, 2003).

Therapy

• Bateman C. and Holmes J. Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1995)
• Gerhardt S. Why Love Matters, (Routledge, 2004)
• Holmes J. John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Routledge, 1993)
• Orbach, S. The Impossibility of Sex, (Penguin, 2000)
• Sinason V. Mental Handicap and the Human Condition (Free Association Books, 1992)
• Steiner J. Psychic Retreats (Routledge, 1993)

   

sexual abuse 

• Bentovim, A. Trauma Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families (Karnac Books, 2002)
• Sinason V. (Ed), Treating the Survivors of Satanist Abuse (Routledge, 1989)
• Sanderson C. Counselling Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Jessica Kingsley, 1990)
• Elliott M. Female Sexual Abuse of Children (Longman, 1993)
• Morrison B. As If (Granta Books, 1998)
• Welldon E. Mother, Madonna, Whore (Karnac, 2004)

   

legal and law reform

• No Secrets (2000, Dept. of Health) Guidance on working with vulnerable adults
• Sexual Offences Act, 2003(HMSO) Introduced important changes in the law on sexual offences as it relates to people with a learning disability or a mental disorder.
• Sexual Offences Act, 2003 – briefing by Turning Point (Turning Point, 2003)
• The Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Act 2006 (HMSO)
• The Mental Capacity Act 2007 (DH/ Dept of Constitutional Affairs, 2000
• Mental Health Bill 2007

working with offenders

• Cordess C. and Cox M. (eds) Forensic Psychotherapy – Two Vols. Mainly Theory, Mainly Practice (Jessica Kingsley, 1996)
• De Zulueta F. From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness (Wiley, 2006 Second Edition)
• Hollows A. & Armstrong H., Children and Young People as Abusers – An Agenda for Action (National Children’s Bureau, 2000)
• Horton A. Johnson B. Roundy L. & Williams D (eds) The Incest Perpetrator – the Family Member no one wants to treat (Sage, 1999)
• Maletsky B. Treating the Sexual Offender (Sage, 1991)
• Welldon E. Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (Jessica Kingsley, 1996)

   

groupwork

   

 

• John Schlapobersky in Forensic Psychotherapy Vol 1 (eds) Cordess C. & Cox M. (Jessica Kingsley, 1996) Group Analytic Perspectives – From the Speech of Hands to the Language of Words
• Welldon E. in Forensic Psychotherapy Vol 2 (eds) Cordess C. & Cox M. (Jessica Kingsley, 1996) Group Analytic Psychotherapy in an Outpatient Setting
• Kerslake A. Readings in Groupwork Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse (Whiting & Birch, 1995)
• Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 9 by Christiane Sanderson (Jessica Kingsley, 1990)