Valerie Sinason is a child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst who is well known for her pioneering work with learning disabled patients.
For the last decade she has also been at the forefront of the growing awareness and understanding of ritual abuse and the ways that psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be used to treat its victims.
Valerie has played a key role in developing the current understanding of the psychodynamics of this abuse. This controversial work has also focussed on establishing the traumatic aetiology of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and has highlighted its link with ritual abuse.
In 1998 she founded the Clinic for Dissociative Studies which offers treatment to children and adults, with or without learning disabilities, who have suffered severe trauma and developed dissociative states.
