Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians

by Gordon, John; Kirtchuk, Gabriel; Hinshelwood, R. D.

• ISBN13: 9781855755628
• ISBN10: 1855755629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

'When I sat down to read this book, I decided to fasten my seat-belt. There are people so desperate that they are willing to commit terrible crimes to get their message across, and there are carers so assaulted that they must put safety before care. Not a book to read before bedtime you might say. However I'm not sure that this is setting the scene correctly, because, when I read it, in addition to the psychopathology of desperation, there is the capacity to reflect on it, and to give despair the meaning it should have, and to do so with a greatly reassuring power.' --From the Foreword by Bob Hinshelwood, Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK '[The book] may stand as an unusually bold and uncompromising example of psychodynamically informed action research and the contribution this can offer, drawing on the intelligence afforded by emotional experience, to the restoring of both meaning and agency. Viewed in this way, the book both speaks to and has a relevance for practitioners, managers and consultants well beyond the boundaries of just one signal enterprise.' --From the Afterword by David Armstrong, Principal Consultant at the Tavistock Consultancy Service, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Table of Contents

Introduction

Caring Amid Victims and Perpetrators

The Dreaded and Dreading Patient and Therapist

X-treme Group Analysis: On the Countertransference Edge

Bearable or Unbearable? Unconscious communication in management

Thoughts from Consulting in Secure Settings: Do Forensic Institutions Need Psychotherapy?

Interpersonal Dynamics in the Everyday Practice of a Forensic Unit

Conclusion: The role of a Psychotherapy Department in the Large Forensic Services

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