Playing with dynamite : a personal approach to the psychoanalytic understanding of perversions, violence, and criminality / Estela V. Welldon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welldon, Estela V.

Series:

FOR

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal psychology.

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Estela Welldon 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

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; FOREWORDS: R. Horacio Etchegoyen; FOREWORDS: Brett Kahr; FOREWORDS: Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC; INTRODUCTION; An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1996; CHAPTER ONE: The true nature of perversions; CHAPTER TWO: Perverse transference and the malignant bonding; CHAPTER THREE: Babies as transitional objects: another manifestation of perverted motherhood; CHAPTER FOUR: Is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy another case of female perversion?; CHAPTER FIVE: Bodies across generations and cycles of abuse

CHAPTER SIX: Children who witness domestic violence: what future?An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1999 98; CHAPTER SEVEN: The unique contribution of group analytic psychotherapy for victims and perpetrators of incest; CHAPTER EIGHT: Introduction to forensic psychotherapy; CHAPTER NINE: From the court to the couch; CHAPTER TEN: The Portman Clinic and the IAFP; An interview with Estela V. Welldon, November 2010; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-90314-6

0-429-47837-2

1-283-07232-7

9786613072320

1-84940-885-8

9780429478376

OCLC:

743103719