Forensic Psychotherapy

In this collection, leading international experts present the shaping of the emerging discipline of forensic psychotherapy in Europe and the United States. This book was originally published as two special issues of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Jessica Yakeley is Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy and Director of the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Gill McGauley was Professor of Forensic Psychotherapy and Medical Education at St. George's, University of London, UK; and Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

Foreword 1. Forensic psychotherapy 2. Female violence and toxic couples 3. 3 Man unlock: out of sight, out of mind - Art psychotherapy with a woman with severe and dangerous personality disorder in prison 4. The place of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of high-risk personality-disordered offenders 5. 'This is the pain I feel!' Projection and emotional pain in the nurse-patient relationship with people diagnosed with personality disorders in forensic and specialist personality disorder services: findings from a mixed methods study 6. Safety in numbers: group therapy-based index offence work in secure psychiatric care 7. Can psychoanalysis help us to understand the causes and prevention of violence? 8. Forensic follow-up care for outpatients in Germany 9. Creating mother and baby therapy groups in prison: emotional valuation 10. A child's loss becomes a young man's violence 11. In praise of Dr Leslie Sohn 1919-2013 12. A fertile matrix: the birth of the Forensic Psychotherapy Society