David Simpson
David Simpson is joint Head of the Tavistock Clinic Learning Disabilities Service. Following a background in paediatrics, he trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. He is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Programme Director for Specialist Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Tavistock Clnic, and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free and University College London Hospital Medical School. He is a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society and works in private practice as a psychoanalyst.
Unexpected Gains: Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited... (more)
9/11: The Culture of Commemoration
After the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; the events of that day were... (more)