Explorations in Forensic Psychotherapy

The Work of the Portman Clinic from 1933 to the Present
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-83407-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Explorations in Forensic Psychotherapy: The Work of the Portman Clinic from 1933 to the Present examines the work and the culture of the Portman Clinic in London and its pioneering contribution, over more than ninety years, to the understanding and treatment of criminal and deviant behaviour.

In each chapter, past and present clinicians at the Clinic describe their thinking and clinical work in relation to specific patterns of behaviour and the contexts in which they can be understood. Addressing topics as varied as internet offending, shame and stalking, each author reflects on how their work continues the Clinic’s legacy of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic understanding. Theoretical perspectives on violence, sexual deviance, delinquency and criminality are interwoven with the practical and technical challenges of working with this demanding but rewarding patient group. The book also addresses questions of risk and ethics, and the institutional complexities that arise in the care and treatment of these individuals.

This book will be essential reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working in forensic settings. It will also be of interest to other professionals who work with people with personality disorders, and to those working with patients in mental health services, the criminal justice system and private practice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blumenthal, Stephen

Yakeley, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. A Living History of the Portman Clinic 3. Working with People with Compulsive Sexual Behaviours 4. Shame-men and the Shaman: The Wisdom of the Crowd in the Group Treatment of Men with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) 5. Mother Nature and Father Time: Oedipal Imbalance and the Premature Structuring of Reality in Compulsive Sexual Behaviours 6. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Stalking, ‘Not Here but not Far' 7. A Matter of Wife and Death: Reflections on Music and Violence 8. The Violent Human 9. Forensic CAMHS in Central Northeast London: A Unique Response to Unique Young People 10. Thinking When Threatened: Working with Enactment— Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic 11. ‘That’s Just How it is These Days’: Exposure to Online Pornography in Childhood and its Impact on Development in Late Adolescence 12. Blackness as Badness: Race, Criminality and Psychoanalysis 13. When the Unbearable Returns

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Stephen Blumenthal is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist working in private practice and at the Portman Clinic. He has a particular interest in the relationship between mind and behaviour, and in the public understanding of psychological ideas. He has published books and numerous peer-reviewed research and clinical papers.

Dr. Jessica Yakeley is a psychoanalyst and consultant psychiatrist. She is Director of the Portman Clinic and a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has published widely on psychoanalytic approaches to medical education, violence, paraphilic disorders and antisocial personality disorder. She is currently Chair of the Medical Psychotherapy Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.