Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management

ISBN-13: 9781855752979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str.

Ronald Doctor

Opis

This is a thought-provoking new collection that investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment in a series of papers by specialists in various aspects of forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy. An indispensable guide for any healthcare professional as well as fascinating insight into this highly-pressured environment.

Spis treści

Series Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Pathways of risk: the past, the present, and the unconscious , Assessment of violence in medium-secure units , Risk assessment in general psychiatry: a psychoanalytic perspective , The psychodynamic assessment of violence in the general medical hospital, or, taking the “non-body” seriously , Psychoanalytic aspects to the risk containment of dangerous patients treated in high-security hospital , Containment and countertransference issues in a violent borderline patient , Risk-taking in the assessment of maternal abilities , The role of violence in perverse psychopathology , Envy and violence in confused sexuality

O autorze

Ronald Doctor