ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines the impact Estela Welldon has upon the birth and development of a relatively new specialism-namely, psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients with intellectual disabilities: a body of work known, increasingly, as forensic disability psychotherapy. He finds him thoughts going to one of the disciplines that Estela has helped to create, namely, forensic disability psychotherapy, the application of forensic psychotherapy to the treatment of patients with intellectual disabilities. Welldon’s contribution towards the development of forensic disability psychotherapy is both personal and professional. The forensic disability patient tends to conform to Welldon’s view of perversion as being linked to the patient’s hatred of the pregnant woman’s body. Forensic psychotherapy has added an enormous amount to the formation of both disability psychotherapy and to forensic disability psychotherapy. Forensic disability psychotherapy makes use of Welldon’s capacity to work with the victim within the victimiser and applies it to working with the able within the disabled and disabled within the able.
