Working psychoanalytically with clients with learning disability: The real giants we face: A long-term music therapy with an adopted girl with significant multiple disabilities

Gravestock, Joy

Abstract

A chapter describing a case of long term music therapy with a female child with significant disability who was adopted. the author argues for long term therapy with such children who have a complex interface of difficulties due to the intrinsically connected relationship of their adoption and disability material.

Citation

Gravestock, J. (2021). Working psychoanalytically with clients with learning disability: The real giants we face: A long-term music therapy with an adopted girl with significant multiple disabilities. In M. Cao, R. Hougham, & S. Scoble (Eds.), Imagining Windmills: Trust, Truth, And The Unknown In The Arts Therapies. UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Dec 30, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 15, 2023
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: Imagining Windmills: Trust, Truth, And The Unknown In The Arts Therapies
• Chapter Number: 11
• ISBN: 9780367626730; 9780367626693
• Keywords: Adoption, disability, music therapy, psychoanalysis
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10485882
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Imagining-Windmills-Trust-Truth-and-the-Unknown-in-the-Arts-Therapies/Cao-Hougham-Scoble/p/book/9780367626693