Dangerous patients : a psychodynamic approach to risk assessment and management

Dangerous patients : a psychodynamic approach to risk assessment and management /

Bringing together a well-respected group of clinicians, this text explores the controversial and very topical subject of risk assessment with violent patients.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Doctor, Ronald M. (Ronald Manual)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Karnac, 2003
Series:Forensic psychotherapy monograph series.
Subjects:
Violence > Psychological aspects.
Violence in psychiatric hospitals.
Aggressiveness > Treatment.
Psychotherapy.
Mentally ill women.
Forensic Psychiatry > methods
Risk Assessment > methods
Dangerous Behavior
Mentally Ill Persons
Psychotherapy
Violence > psychology
mentally ill.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ronald Doctor
  • Pathways of risk: the past, the present, and the unconscious / Daniel Antebi
  • Assessment of violence in medium-secure units / Ian Treasaden
  • Risk assessment in general psychiatry: a psychoanalytic perspective / Richard Lucas
  • The psychodynamic assessment of violence in the general medical hospital, or, taking the "non-body" seriously / John Lowe
  • Psychoanalytic aspects to the risk containment of dangerous patients treated in high-security hospital / Carine Minne
  • Containment and countertransference issues in a violent borderline patient / Mary Brownescombe Heller
  • Risk-taking in the assessment of maternal abilities / Estela V. Welldon
  • The role of violence in perverse psychopathology / Ronald Doctor
  • Envy and violence in confused sexuality / Kristian Aleman.

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