NCJ Number
178392
Editor(s)
Christopher Cordess,
Murray Cox
Date Published
1996
Length
984 pages
Annotation
This compendium contains the contributions of more than 60 authors and covers all aspects, both theoretical and applied, of forensic psychotherapy.
Abstract
Twelve papers focus on aspects of theory. Topics include the mental and emotional dynamics that lead to the mental formulation of the criminal act and the factors involved in acting out the mental formulation; general and forensic aspects of transference and countertransference, as well as defense mechanisms; personality and sexual development (psychopathology and offending); and psychotic and borderline processes. Other topics considered under theory are theories of aggression and violence, the origins of rage and aggression, murderous guilt, and psychodynamic theories of delinquency. Part II contains 34 chapters on the "practice" of forensic psychotherapy. The chapters are grouped under the following topics: forensic psychotherapy and its neighbors, central issues, training and supervision (the interface with forensic psychiatry), special challenges, special settings, research, and the creative arts therapies. 1,500-item bibliography and subject and author indexes