Listening to People Who Do Not Speak: Attachment, Communication, and Meaning in Work with Disabled Adults and Children1

Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in West Yorkshire. She has been a teacher of children and adults with physical and sensory and learning disabilities, a trainer in the area of challenging behaviour and supervisor to therapists working with people with learning disabilities. She is a member of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. She has particular interests in the use of poetry in psychotherapy and in working with people who do not speak. E-mail: .