Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency

by David Morgan (Editor), Stanley Ruszczynski (Editor)

Overview

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 clinical work, with adults and adolescents, including

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367325312
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	The Portman Papers Series
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Morgan, Stanley Ruszczynski

Table of Contents

Introduction — The Portman Clinic — The problem of certain psychic realities — The internal couple and the Oedipus complex in cases of perversion — Psychoanalytic contributions to risk assessment and management — Psychoanalytical aspects to the risk of containment of dangerous patients treated in high security — Perverse females — From biting teeth to biting wit — Brief communications from the edge — Compulsive use of virtual sex and internet pornography — Trans-sexuality — Perverse patients' use of the body—their own and that of others — Ethical problems treating paedophile patients — The forensic network and the internal world of the offender 1

Editorial Reviews

This collection of psychoanalytic papers offers an important contribution to the clinical, managerial and political debate on the management of risk, treatment models and our understanding of the potential for and process of recovery in health and criminal justice settings. Future policy in these fields will require a deeper understanding of the dynamics and complexity involved for professionals, patients and offenders in working to create the conditions that will facilitate change. Publication of these papers brings the experience and thinking of practitioners in such work to a wider audience.

Nick Benefield