Description: This volume brings together a wide range of classic, and some less well known papers on the psychodynamic and psychological understanding and treatment of offender patients and victims. The emphasis is on the application of psychodynamic ideas in the full range of settings from voluntary outpatient treatment through to involuntary treatment in secure settings. It encompasses individual and group therapies, the therapeutic community and addresses adolescent as well as adult issues. It includes aspects of the history of these ideas and seminal papers by Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Rickman, and Glover, as well as selected papers by contemporary practitioners. The editor provides a commentary for each section. The book provides the necessary background to the growing literature in the psychotherapies as they are applied to the understanding of anti-social, violent and sexual behavior.

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