The therapeutic milieu under fire : security and insecurity in forensic mental health /

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Imprint:London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012.
Description:255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Forensic focus series ; 34
Forensic focus ; 34.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8920462
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Other authors / contributors:Adlam, John, 1965-
ISBN:9781849052580 (alk. paper)
1849052581 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editorial Commentary
  • Part I. The Interpersonal Minefield: The Psycho-Social Dynamics of Engagement
  • 1. Nursing at the Scene of the Crime
  • 2. The Dynamics of Difference
  • 3. Life on the Borders of Thought
  • 4. Complaints as a Tool for Bullying
  • 5. Your Friends and Neighbours: Professional Boundary Violations - A Review of Perpetrator Typologies and Impact on Clients
  • Part II. Shot By Both Sides: The Therapeutic Milieu Under Attack
  • 6. 'Mirror Mirror': Parallel Processes in Forensic Institutions
  • 7. Single-Sex Units as a Defence Against Anxiety?
  • 8. Annihilating the Other: Forensic Aspects of Organisational Change
  • 9. How to (Almost) Murder a Profession: The Unsolved Mystery of British Social Work
  • 10. Couples Who Kill: The Malignant Bonding
  • Part III. Courage Under Fire: Resilience, Reflection and Reparation
  • 11. Infanticide and Paedophilia as a Defence Against Incest: Work with a Man with a Severe Intellectual Disability
  • 12. The Bereaved Families Forum: Finding the Other Within
  • 13. What Makes a Secure Setting Secure?
  • 14. The Traumatised-Organisation-in-the-Mind: Opening Up Space for Difficult Conversations in Difficult Places
  • 15. Some Challenges to the Capacity to Think, Link and Hope in the Provision of Psychotherapy for the Learning Disabled
  • List of Contributors
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index