Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency

Presents theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the institutional difficulties which emerge in the care of the patients alongside chapters on clinical work, with adults and adolescents, including chapters on the compulsive use of internet pornography and transsexuality.

List of contents

Introduction -- The Portman Clinic -- The problem of certain psychic realities -- The internal couple and the Oedipus complex in cases of perversion -- Psychoanalytic contributions to risk assessment and management -- Psychoanalytical aspects to the risk of containment of dangerous patients treated in high security -- Perverse females -- From biting teeth to biting wit -- Brief communications from the edge -- Compulsive use of virtual sex and internet pornography -- Trans-sexuality -- Perverse patients' use of the body-their own and that of others -- Ethical problems treating paedophile patients -- The forensic network and the internal world of the offender 1

About the author

David Morgan is a Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and Consultant Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic in London.Stanley Ruszczynski is a senior Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists and a Direct Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is the Clinical Director of the Portman Clinic and a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist.

Summary

Presents theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the institutional difficulties which emerge in the care of the patients alongside chapters on clinical work, with adults and adolescents, including chapters on the compulsive use of internet pornography and transsexuality.

Product details

• Authors: David (Duke University Morgan, David (University of California - San Fran Morgan, David (University of Wisconsin-Madison Morgan, David Ruszczynski Morgan
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor), Morgan David (Editor), Stanley Ruszczynski (Editor), Ruszczynski Stanley (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325312
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32531-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Portman Papers Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Trauma and Violence