Forensic psychotherapy: crime, psychodynamics and the offender patient

Part 1 Mainly theory: the criminal act and acting out, Christopher Cordess and Arthur Hyatt-Williams; transference and countertransference - general and forensic aspects, Nicholas Temple; defence mechanisms - general and forensic aspects, Anthony Bateman; related disciplines - the cognitive-behavioural approach, hermeneutics, ethology, criminology, communication, speech and language, systems theory; personality and sexual development, psychopathology and offending, Peter Fonagy; psychotic and borderline processes, Patrick Gallwey; theories of aggression and violence, Felicity de Zulueta; the origins of rage and aggression, Neville Symington; murderous guilt, Nikolaas Treurniet; from practice to psychodynamic theories of deliniquency in adolescence, Don Campbell; a group-analytic perspective, John Schlapobersky; a psychodramatic perspective, Jinnie Jeffries.

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This text is part of a series - ""Forensic Focus"" - which takes the field of forensic psychotherapy as its focal point, offering a forum for the presentation of theoretical and clinical issues. It also embraces such influential neighbouring disciplines as language, law, literature, criminology, ethics and philosophy, as well as psychiatry and psychology. This compendium of forensic psychotherapy brings together the contributions of over 50 authors. It aims to cover all aspects - both theoretical and applied - of this field.