Murder - A Psychotherapeutic Investigation

This book, a sequel to the edited book Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, places the emphasis on working in psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients who have killed to gain a greater understanding of their internal world and object relationships.

List of contents

Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Life after death: a group for people who have killed -- Murder: persecuted by jealousy -- Women who kill: when fantasy becomes reality -- Killing off the shadow: the role of projective identification in murderous acts -- The history of murder -- The dog that didn't bark: a mild man's murderousness

About the author

Ronald Doctor, FRCPsych, is Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust, Chair of the NHS Liaison Committee, British Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the Association of the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists in the NHS (APP), Academic Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London. He has a particular interest in forensic psychotherapy, and he has edited two books: 'Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management' (2003); and 'Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation' (2008).

Summary

This book, a sequel to the edited book Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, places the emphasis on working in psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients who have killed to gain a greater understanding of their internal world and object relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Doctor, Tony Maden, Estela Welldon
• Assisted by: Ronald Doctor (Editor), Doctor Ronald (Editor), Brett Kahr (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367325633
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32563-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Forensic, Psychotherapy, Criminal or forensic psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Individual Psychotherapy