Forensic psychotherapy: crime, psychodynamics and the offender patient volume I. Mainly theory

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.