The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
1st Edition
Edited
By Graeme Galton, Adah Sachs
December 31, 2008
This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be caused by prolonged trauma in infancy and childhood. This trauma may be linked with crimes committed ...
Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation
1st Edition
By Ronald Doctor
December 31, 2008
This book, a sequel to the edited book Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, places the emphasis on working in psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients who have killed to gain a greater understanding of their internal world and object relationships....
Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians: Countertransference in Forensic Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By John Gordon, Gabriel Kirtchuk
December 31, 2008
'...a fascinating read for mental health workers regardless of their own theoretical background. Working with disturbed and disturbing individuals in secure settings produces strong feelings, and working with those feelings is undoubtedly an essential part of providing care effectively. This book ...
Violence in Children: Understanding and Helping Those Who Harm
1st Edition
By Rosemary Campher
December 31, 2008
This book increases the reader's understanding of violent children and the value and vicissitudes of their psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It explores various aspects of violence and the attendant emotional, psychological, biological, and social features in children....
Violent Adolescents: Understanding the Destructive Impulse
1st Edition
By Lynn Greenwood
December 31, 2005
This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which contribute to violent behaviour. The contributors look beyond the "why" of the behaviour and offer solutions on how to handle the situation. The ...
Anxiety at 35,000 Feet: An Introduction to Clinical Aerospace Psychology
1st Edition
By Robert Bor
December 31, 2004
This book covers the mental health and psychology of pilots, including the psychological requirements for certification, environmental challenges, psychological problems among air crew, the effects of disruption to personal relationships, alcohol and drug misuse, and pilot reactions to accidents....
The Mind of the Paedophile: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Loretta R. Loeb
December 31, 2004
The Mind of the Paedophile discusses one of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in the psychoanalytic arena today - paedophilia. A variety of treatments and therapies, including brain surgery, electric shock treatment and incarceration, have not succeeded in treating this condition. ...
Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management
1st Edition
By Ronald Doctor
December 31, 2003
This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment. We have all read the lurid headlines when things go wrong but what is it like for the professional who has to make such vital ...
Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology: Winnicottian Perspectives
1st Edition
By Brett Kahr
December 31, 2001
This exceptional book adds to the fast growing area of forensic psychotherapy and shows the relevance of Winnicott's work to therapy with some of the most deprived in our society. Contributors:Brett Kahr; Jennifer Johns; Estela Welldon; Joan Raphael-Leff; Valerie Sinason; Jeannie Milligan; Donald ...
Life within Hidden Worlds: Psychotherapy in Prisons
1st Edition
By Jessica Williams Saunders
December 31, 2001
I would like to thank Judy Gammelgaard and Andrew Moskowitz for their encouragement, critique, and confidence in me, without which I could not have undertaken the present study. I also wish to thank Jon Frederickson for his generous editorial suggestions, and for his writings, which stimulated my ...
Violence: A Public Health Menace and a Public Health Approach
1st Edition
By Sandra L. Bloom
December 31, 2001
This book provides practical information to design specific intervention strategies aimed at preventing the escalation of violence in any community. It provides both practical advice and theoretical stimulation for introductory students and for senior practitioners of forensic psychotherapy....