Working with Dangerous People: The Psychotherapy of Violence

ISBN-13: 9781857758245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 212 str.

Opis

Provides detailed clinical descriptions of dangerous people, Includes the latest research on the probation service and sex offenders, Contains important contributions from experts in the field, including many who currently work with violent people, For psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, prison staff.

Spis treści

Part One: The disturbed disruptive. Some ethical issues in psychodynamic work with dangerous people. Science, meaning, and the scientist-practitioner model of treatment. Psychopathy: the dominant paradigm. Changing people with programs. Part Two: Thinking under fire: the prison therapeutic community as container. Working with the unbearable. Responding to injustice: working with angry and violent clients in a person-centered way. Violence, sexual offending and sexual abuse: are they linked? Murder as an attempt to manage self disgust. Working as the coalface. The concept of dangerous and younger people. Where lies the danger?: a psychodrama approach. After life imprisonment: the role of the probation service. Concluding comments: a human approach to working with dangerous people.

O autorze

Jones David