Forensic psychotherapy
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Coding the Therapeutic Process
Emblems of Encounter: A Manual for Counsellors and Therapists
Murray Cox
This volume – first published in 1978 – is a manual of visual display systems which offers various forms of notation for recording a patient's kinship network, his living conditions and life events alongside his clinical history. It also indicates ways of recording inner and outer world phenomena. Learn More1989, 96pp -
Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor
The Actors are Come Hither - The Performance of Tragedy in a Secure Psychiatric Hospital
Edited by Murray Cox
Between 1989 and 1991 several of Shakespeare's tragedies were performed in the central hall of Broadmoor Hospital. This book sets these important events on record. It offers insights into the impact of such drama, in such a setting, upon actors and audience. Learn More1992, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 280pp, £14.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-121-3 -
Shakespeare as Prompter
The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process
Murray Cox and Alice Theilgaard
The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision. Learn More1994, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 480pp, £29.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-159-6 -
Structuring the Therapeutic Process
Compromise with Chaos: The Therapist's Response to the Individual and the Group
Murray Cox
A stimulating reflection for those of us who are aware of the unwithering need of organising and structuring again and again our creative doubts. It combines practical help and the development of theoretical concepts in an unusually convincing way. Learn More1995, 320pp -
The Group as Poetic Play-Ground
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis: The 1990 S H Foulkes Annual Lecture
Murray Cox
This lecture explores some aspects of creativity, metaphor and language which are common to the worlds of group analysis and poetry/drama. Learn More1995, Audio cassette, 9.21in x 6.14in / 234mm x 156mm, £19.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-203-6 -
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 GP's surgery. The author observes that in violence there is an attack not only on the victim, but on the perpetrator's own universe of meaning and value. Learn More1995, 176pp -
Violence in Children and Adolescents
Edited by Ved Varma
This book is an exploration of violence both by and against children, its causes and approaches to its amelioration. The contributors examine topics such as children who kill; violent young offenders; immigrant children who have been the victims of war; the influence of television; the relationship to the family; and racial and sexual violence. Learn More1996, 224pp -
Challenges in Forensic Psychotherapy
Edited by Hjalmar van Marle
This book explores topical policy and practice issues and the innovative Dutch system of treatment for forensic patients. It discusses the importance of the setting for treatment, inpatient or outpatient, voluntary or compulsory and the question of what makes a patient suitable for treatment is a theme that runs throughout the book. Learn More1996, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 172pp, £34.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-419-1 -
A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy
Edited by Estela V. Welldon and Cleo Van Velsen
Forensic Psychiatry has expanded over the last twenty years with a dramatic increase in forensic psychiatry posts and medium secure unit beds. There has been increased concern with the treatment, which is seen by many to be of great importance, and management of mentally ill offenders which has led to more interest in understanding. Learn More1996, 300pp -
Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy
The Aeolian Mode
Murray Cox and Alice Theilgaard
The aim of the Aeolian Mode is to release energy by freeing an individual from the restrictive legacy of the past. Taking Bachelard's paradox "But the image has touched the depths before it stirs the surface" as a paradigm, the book presents the therapeutic possibilities in metaphor and image whereby patients are enabled to tell their story. Learn More1997, 308pp