Valerie Sinason PhD, MACP, M Inst Psychoanal, is a poet, writer, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She is Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability (IPD) and Hon Consultant Psychotherapist for the University of Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic. She formerly was a Consultant Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and Consultant Research Psychoanalyst at St Georges Hospital Medical School. A 2nd edition of her seminal book Mental Handicap and the Human Condition is about to be published by Free Association Books and a 2nd edition of her edited book Attachment, Trauma and Dissociation from Routledge.