Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality and Forensic Psychotherapy
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 216
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 95053
- ISBN 13 : 9781913494063
- ISBN 10 : 1913494063
Table of Contents
Introduction: The man who shot his mother and father in the face
1. Torture and Execution: Ancient Remedies for Perpetrators
2. The Medicalisation of Insanity: Hereditary Taint and the Criminal Brain
3. The Freudian Challenge: Towards a Humanisation of Offenders
4. The Growth of Forensic Psychotherapy: From Punishment to Treatment
5. Paedophilia: The Sexualisation of Trauma
6. Murder: The Castration of Safety
Conclusion: Blue-sky thinking: the future of forensic mental health
End notes
Acknowledgements
References
Index