Forensic Focus

Boys Who Have Abused

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Victim/Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse

John Woods
With a contribution from Anne Alvarez

John Woods presents a theoretical approach and practical suggestions for mental health practitioners working therapeutically with young people who have abused. Drawing on his long-standing...

Challenges in Forensic Psychotherapy

Edited by Hjalmar van Marle

Based on a conference held in 1994, this international collection looks at current issues challenging this newly emerging discipline.

The Cradle of Violence

Essays on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Literature

Stephen Wilson

This collection of essays focuses on the unconscious roots of human behaviour in a range of settings: the consulting room, the small group, the workplace, the therapeutic community and the...

Ethical Issues in Forensic Mental Health Research

Edited by Gwen Adshead and Chris Brown

A contemporary case-based discussion of ethical dilemmas faced by researchers in forensic mental health, this book offers useful guidance to anyone planning research in this field. It focuses on...

Forensic Nursing and Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender

Edited by David Robinson and Alyson Kettles

The first comprehensive account of forensic nursing and its role within the wider professional team, the aim of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the training needed to...

Managing High Security Psychiatric Care

Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey

The management of the secure psychiatric services is under increasing scrutiny. In Managing High Security Psychiatric Care the contributors examine the management of these services in the light...

A Matter of Security

The Application of Attachment Theory to Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Edited by Friedemann Pfäfflin and Gwen Adshead

As a psychodynamic theory of both normal development and psychopathology, attachment theory has particular utility for forensic psychiatry. A Matter of Security provides an account of the...

Neither Bad Nor Mad

The Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law and Politics

Deidre N. Greig

This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his...

Personality Disorder

Temperament or Trauma?

Heather Castillo

Personality Disorder (PD) is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat and in the past literature on the subject has tended to neglect the invaluable viewpoint of...

A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy

Edited by Estela V. Welldon and Cleo Van Velsen

'In these pages the trainee will find the shape of things to come, whereas the trainer will be glad of promptings for informed debate and demands for elucidation. The vignettes,...

Prison Theatre

Practices and Perspectives

Edited by James Thompson

'This book has changed my life. Soon after I received it ... the University of Turin launched a scheme to begin offering courses in local prisons. They wanted someone to teach an English...

Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law

Alec Buchanan

Violent crimes committed by the mentally disordered attract academic and public attention. They raise issues of moral responsibility and public protection. This study systematically analyses the...

Psychiatric Assessment

Pre and Post Admission

Valerie Anne Brown

This book consists of a series of assessments designed for professionals working with mentally disordered offenders and clients with challenging behaviours. It is written for psychiatrists,...

Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice

Working with Difference

Edited by Charles Kaye and Tony Lingiah

The contributors to this wide-ranging volume are experts from a range of psychiatric, criminal justice, legal and ethical backgrounds, and, uniquely, include patients who recount their own...

Remorse and Reparation

Edited by Murray Cox

'This is a book all magistrates, probation officers and QPMs should read. It consists of 15 short and mostly readable essays, looking at a little-considered aspect of human experience from...

Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses

Edited by Alyson Kettles, Phil Woods and Mick Collins

Written by experts in the growing field of forensic mental health care, this book explores current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally disordered...

Violence and Mental Disorder

A Critical Aid to the Assessment and Management of Risk

Stephen Blumenthal and Tony Lavender

'Because of the level of public concern, assessing and managing risk have become major clinical preoccupations. This book, therefore, is dealing with a very topical issue. It contains an...

Violence

Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic

James Gilligan

'James Gilligan has written a stunning book about violence. As a psychiatrist who has spent twenty-five years of his professional life treating men who committed murder, Gilligan draws...

Working Therapeutically with Women in Secure Mental Health Settings

Edited by Nikki Jeffcote and Tessa Watson

A pressing need for the integration of current practice, research and service development is addressed in this comprehensive book, which explores the experience of work with women in secure...

Working with Sex Offenders in Prisons and through Release to the Community

A Handbook

Alec Spencer

Working with Sex Offenders in Prisons and through Release to the Community is the first study of its kind to look at a wide range of issues and problems relating to the management of...