Dangerous patients : a psychodynamic approach to risk assessment and management / Ronald Doctor.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Doctor, Ronald M. (Ronald Manual), author.

Contributor:

• Doctor, Ronald.
• Nettleton, Sarah.
• Taylor, Pamela.

Series:

• Forensic psychotherapy monograph series.
• Forensic psychotherapy monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Forensic psychiatry.
• Risk assessment.
• Violence--Forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

• London ; New York : Karnac, 2003.
• London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a thought-provoking new collection that investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment in a series of papers by specialists in various aspects of forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy. An indispensable guide for any healthcare professional as well as a fascinating insight into this highly-pressured environment.

Contents:

• COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; Introduction; Chapter 1. Pathways of risk: the past, the present, and the unconscious; Chapter 2. Assessment of violence in medium-secure units; Chapter 3. Risk assessment in general psychiatry: a psychoanalytic perspective; Chapter 4. The psychodynamic assessment of violence in the general medical hospital, or, taking the ""non-body"" seriously; Chapter 5. Psychoanalytic aspects to the risk containment of dangerous patients treated in high-security hospital
• Chapter 6. Containment and countertransference issues in a violent borderline patientChapter 7. Risk-taking in the assessment of maternal abilities; Chapter 8. The role of violence in perverse psychopathology; Chapter 9. Envy and violence in confused sexuality Kristian Aleman; REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

• 0-429-91251-X
• 0-429-89828-2
• 0-429-47351-6
• 1-283-12584-6
• 9786613125842
• 1-84940-382-1

OCLC:

729166953