Playing with Dynamite

The author brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of viewing domestic violence. Along with these are vivid descriptions of group analytic psychotherapy with forensic patients and, uniquely, of the joint group treatment of incest survivors and perpetrators. She also outlines the development of forensic psychotherapy as a new field of clinical and academic endeavour and her involvement in this. In a series of interviews with Brett Kahr she describes her professional journey, from being trained by Horacio Etchegoyen in her native Argentina, followed by an eye-opening period at the Menninger Clinic, then eventually to London and a distinguished career at the Portman Clinic.

Estela V Welldon

Series Foreword , Foreword , Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1996 , The true nature of perversions , Perverse transference and the malignant bonding , Babies as transitional objects: another manifestation of perverted motherhood , Is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy another case of female perversion? , Bodies across generations and cycles of abuse , Children who witness domestic violence: what future? , An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1999 , The unique contribution of group analytic psychotherapy for victims and perpetrators of incest , Introduction to forensic psychotherapy , From the court to the couch , The Portman Clinic and the IAFP , An interview with Estela V. Welldon, November 2010