Broken Bounds : Contemporary Reflections on the Antisocial Tendency / by Christopher Reeves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeves, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Reeves, Christopher.

Series:

Winnicott studies monograph series.

Winnicott studies monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisocial personality disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2012.

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2009-2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the theme of "the antisocial tendency". These lectures are offered here to the wider public much as they were originally given. The speakers, each one an established figure in child care policy or in the residential and therapeutic management of disaffected youngsters, reflect on society's changing attitudes towards antisocial behaviour and its manifestations over the past half century. They consider how altered childrearing practices, the greater incidence of family break-up, and the increasing part played by central government in the determination of child care policies, have contributed to a shift towards the more punitive attitudes towards "wayward youth" prevalent today. Brief, pointed, and accessible, these lectures address topics of contemporary social concern by identifying some of the underlying questions to be asked regarding the child, the family, and society in a mass-communication and mass-organized environment.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; LECTURE ONE Learning to live with the antisocial tendency: the challenge of residential care and treatment; LECTURE TWO Responses to antisocial youth: does Donald Winnicott have messages for us today?; LECTURE THREE Can the state ever be a "good-enough parent"?; LECTURE FOUR Winnicott's delinquent; LECTURE FIVE Heroic delinquency and the riddle of the Sphinx; LECTURE SIX Society and the antisocial tendency: "physician, heal thyself!"

POSTSCRIPT The "English riots" as a communication: Winnicott, the antisocial tendency, and public disorder

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

0-429-91162-9

0-429-47262-5

1-283-37024-7

9786613370242

1-84940-952-8

9780429472626

OCLC:

773564792