The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series
Therapeutic Work with Perpetrators and Survivors of Female-to-Female Child Sexual Abuse: A Clinician’s Guide
1st Edition
By Lea Getu
December 08, 2025
This book provides with a guide to working with survivors and perpetrators of female-female child sexual abuse (F-FCSA), examining the clinical challenges of treating perpetrators and survivors of F-FCSA and how to overcome them. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book sets F-FCSA in its...
Forensic Psychoanalysis: From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers
1st Edition
By Brett Kahr
November 21, 2024
Forensic Psychoanalysis examines the traumatic psychological origins of violence and explores the ways in which such disasters can be prevented and treated. The book encapsulates Professor Brett Kahr’s lengthy career in the field of forensic mental health, investigating all aspects of this vital ...
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children: Eclectic Group Conductors and Creative Play
1st Edition
By Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck, Niko Bittner
September 05, 2024
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions. The authors explore how this form of group work can strengthen resilience and prevent an increase in antisocial behavioural tendencies among children. Based...
Communicating with Vulnerable Patients: A Novel Psychological Approach
1st Edition
By Maria Leticia Castrechini Fernandes Franieck
December 30, 2022
Communicating with Vulnerable Patients explores ways to improve the communication process between highly vulnerable patients and the therapist, based on the assumption of the permanent presence of an ‘outsider’ or potential space in the communication field between them. In this space, the therapist...
The End of the Sentence: Psychotherapy with Female Offenders
1st Edition
Edited
By Margarita Cereijido, Jessica Collier
December 13, 2018
HMP Holloway was the largest women’s prison in Europe, historically holding numerous infamous female criminals and eliciting intrigue and fascination from the public. The End of the Sentence: Psychotherapy with Female Offenders documents the rich and varied psychotherapeutic work undertaken by ...
New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon
1st Edition
By Brett Kahr
November 15, 2017
New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon, edited by the author, contains many rich contributions by some of Welldon's most distinguished former students and proteges. The book consists of important chapters on the creative ways in which colleagues have ...
Consulting to Chaos: An Approach to Patient-Centred Reflective Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By John Gordon, Gabriel Kirtchuk, Maggie McAlister, David Reiss
April 12, 2017
In clinical work, an awareness of patients' subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and treatment planning by describing a structured approach to eliciting patients' core relationship patterns. ...
Psychotherapy with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: The Invisible Men
1st Edition
By Alan Corbett
September 21, 2016
This book provides the long history of male sexual abuse based on the author's extensive clinical experience of working with children and adult victims of sexual crime. It presents several sexual abuse studies, focusing on the challenging art of psychotherapeutic treatment....
Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender: Common Man or Monster?
1st Edition
By Barry Maletzky
July 19, 2016
This book examines the myths perpetuated by the media and by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples. It demonstrates how sexual offending occurs, who commits these acts, what might cause such crimes, how sexual offenders are assessed, supervised, treated, and prevention methods....
Disabling Perversions: Forensic Psychotherapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities
1st Edition
By Alan Corbett
August 28, 2014
The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades of clinical work, the author examines how to assess risk and danger in the forensic disability ...
The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender: Through a Glass Darkly then Face to Face
1st Edition
By Timothy Keogh
December 31, 2012
The book argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties. It details the extent and nature of juvenile sex offending and its impact on victims and provides an extensive ...
Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality
1st Edition
By Estela V. Welldon
December 31, 2011
The author brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of ...