It has become an urgent priority to tackle the problem of violence. But in an age preoccupied with public protection and risk, violent behaviour is more likely to provoke a punitive response than any attempt to understand and address its root causes.
Drawing on the field of psychoanalysis and the expanding discipline of forensic psychotherapy, this book offers a strong conceptual framework for understanding the motivations and dynamics that underlie violent behaviour in adults.
Yakeley offers new insights into the therapeutic containment of aggression:
• exploring violence in relation to specific areas including mental illness and personality, sexuality, gender, and racism
• describing in detail the assessment and treatment of violent patients, whether one to one, in groups or at an institutional level
• looking closely at work in different forensic settings as well as the interface between the mental health and criminal justice systems
• illustrating observations and techniques with vivid case examples.
Written in a clear and approachable style, with a helpful glossary of psychoanalytic and technical terms, Working with Violence is essential reading for those working, or considering working, in counselling, social work and health care settings where they come into therapeutic contact with violent individuals.
Introduction
Violence, Mental Illness and Personality Disorder
Psychopathy
Violence, Sexuality and Perversion
Violent Women
Violence and Society, Race and Culture
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Risk Assessment
Working in Medium and High Security Settings
Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Violent Patients
Group-Analytic Psychotherapy for Violence
Working with the Wider Professional Network
Glossary
JESSICA YAKELEY is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mental and Behavioural Sciences, University College London, UK. She is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Camden Psychotherapy Service, Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society.
Description
It has become an urgent priority to tackle the problem of violence. But in an age preoccupied with public protection and risk, violent behaviour is more likely to provoke a punitive response than any attempt to understand and address its root causes.
Drawing on the field of psychoanalysis and the expanding discipline of forensic psychotherapy, this book offers a strong conceptual framework for understanding the motivations and dynamics that underlie violent behaviour in adults.
Yakeley offers new insights into the therapeutic containment of aggression:
• exploring violence in relation to specific areas including mental illness and personality, sexuality, gender, and racism
• describing in detail the assessment and treatment of violent patients, whether one to one, in groups or at an institutional level
• looking closely at work in different forensic settings as well as the interface between the mental health and criminal justice systems
• illustrating observations and techniques with vivid case examples.
Written in a clear and approachable style, with a helpful glossary of psychoanalytic and technical terms, Working with Violence is essential reading for those working, or considering working, in counselling, social work and health care settings where they come into therapeutic contact with violent individuals.
Contents
Introduction
Violence, Mental Illness and Personality Disorder
Psychopathy
Violence, Sexuality and Perversion
Violent Women
Violence and Society, Race and Culture
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Risk Assessment
Working in Medium and High Security Settings
Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Violent Patients
Group-Analytic Psychotherapy for Violence
Working with the Wider Professional Network
Glossary
Authors
JESSICA YAKELEY is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mental and Behavioural Sciences, University College London, UK. She is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Camden Psychotherapy Service, Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society.
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