Forensic Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9780415789530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 194 str.

Jessica Yakeley; Gill McGauley

Opis

The relatively recently created field of forensic psychotherapy explores the roots of violent, sexual and antisocial behaviour, and applies psychoanalytic knowledge to the assessment, management and treatment of mentally disordered offenders.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Forensic psychotherapy  2. Female violence and toxic couples  3. 3 Man unlock: out of sight, out of mind – Art psychotherapy with a woman with severe and dangerous personality disorder in prison  4. The place of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of high-risk personality-disordered offenders  5. ‘This is the pain I feel!’ Projection and emotional pain in the nurse-patient relationship with people diagnosed with personality disorders in forensic and specialist personality disorder services: findings from a mixed methods study  6. Safety in numbers: group therapy-based index offence work in secure psychiatric care  7. Can psychoanalysis help us to understand the causes and prevention of violence?  8. Forensic follow-up care for outpatients in Germany  9. Creating mother and baby therapy groups in prison: emotional valuation  10. A child’s loss becomes a young man’s violence  11. In praise of Dr Leslie Sohn 1919–2013  12. A fertile matrix: the birth of the Forensic Psychotherapy Society

O autorze

Jessica Yakeley is Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Director of the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Gill McGauley was Professor of Forensic Psychotherapy and Medical Education at St. George’s, University of London, UK; and Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.