Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency.

In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the institutional difficulties which emerge in the care of these patients are presented alongside chapters on clin...

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Main Author: Morgan, David
Other Authors: Ruszczynski, Stanley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac Books, 2006
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE The Portman Clinic; CHAPTER TWO The problem of certain psychic realities; CHAPTER THREE The internal couple and the Oedipus complex in cases of perversion; CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalytic contributions to risk assessment and management; CHAPTER FIVE Psychoanalytical aspects to the risk of containment of dangerous patients treated in high security; CHAPTER SIX Perverse females; CHAPTER SEVEN From biting teeth to biting wit; CHAPTER EIGHT Brief communications from the edge.