Johan de Groef

 

 

 

 

 " I’m general manager of Zonnelied : a service provider for 230 adults with an intellectual disability  decentralized in small houses in the community and 3 central settings for people with severe challenging behavior) in Roosdaal ( Flanders-Belgium) and president of the regional committee for care for adults with an intellectual disability and severe mental health problems .

I’m also trained as a psychoanalyst, with a private practice in Brussels. I’m involved as a supervisor in the postacademic training ( Catholic University of Leuven ) of psychoanalytic psychotherapists in the Kortenberg Clinic .

I edited with E. Heinemann the reader : Psychoanalysis and Mental Handicap ,1999 Free Association Books, London."