Art therapy and learning disabilities: "don't guess my happiness"

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

'Don't guess my happiness!' / Adam

Introduction: learning disabilities, art therapy and the common themes / Kevin O'farrell

1. Personalisation and a new landscape for learning disability services / Stephanie Bull

Talking about learning disability services / Matthew

Part I. Having a learning disability

2. Having a learning disability: the question of what to say and how to say it / Jane Caven

Part II. Loss

Bereavement and learning disabilities: a theoretical overview / Kim Dee

3. Shaping loss / Kim Dee

Talking about loss / Janet (Sarah's Carer)

4. Leila's shunt: 'If I did not have the shunt in my head I would have been OK' / Stephanie Bull / Emma Shallcross

Talking about ending / Henry

Part III. Attachment and separation

5. Skating in the dark / Sandra Storey

Part IV. Infantilisation

6. Stuck in childhood? / Sandra Goody

Part V. Fear

Talking about fear and anxiety / Jo

7. 'The long fingers of fear' / Elizabeth Ashby

Part VI. Powerlessness

8. 'It makes me jump when I fall over' / Quentin Bruckland

Part VII. Self and identity

9. 'The Beast can scream' / Stephanie Bull

Talking about taking photographs / William

Conclusion / Kevin O'farrell

Index