Forensic Psychotherapy: Volume 7 Number 2

Editor : Hessel Willemsen, Editor : Wayne Bodkin, Editor : Massimo De Mari

Forensic Psychotherapy: Volume 7 Number 2

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : December 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 124
  • Category :
    Journals & Periodicals
  • Category 2 :
    Forensic
  • Catalogue No : 98681
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The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy (IJFP) is a brand-new journal launched in 2019. It is published in conjunction with the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and its avowed aim is to “Re-humanise the de-humanised”.

This will be a leading-edge journal that promotes the health of offenders and victims through the use of psychotherapeutic understanding, risk assessment, and treatment techniques, and will also advance understanding about forensic psychotherapeutic practice.

The annual subscription includes two printed issues a year and complimentary online access from Ingenta Connect.

Reasons to subscribe:

– A newly established journal for all professionals bringing together psychoanalytically underpinned understanding of work with people suffering from difficulties involving violence and paraphilias;

– An international journal with wide ranging peer-reviewed contributions in the field of forensic psychotherapy from around the world;

– An innovative journal critically reviewing and discussing developments in clinical practice, theory and research;

– An informative journal that aims to contribute to policy making, influence practice and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration across continents;

– A lively journal that encourages articles from the arts and current affairs, reflecting aspects of the world of forensic psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL
by Hessel Willemsen, Wayne Bodkin, and Massimo De Mari

ARTICLES
– Developments in contemporary psychoanalytic understandings of violent offending: New frontiers in location disturbance in the self
by Timothy Keogh

– The ailment and other stories of countertransference
by Gwen Adshead

– Personality pathology and sentencing: Personality disorder, cultural narratives, and the law
by Andrew Carroll and Wayne Bodkin

– Trauma and offending: Re-enactments in staff teams
by Anne Aiyegbusi

– On country, trauma, and healing: A community psychoanalytic approach to violence as the enactment on unprocessed transgenerational trauma in Central Australia
by Pamela Nathan

– Navigating complexity: Personality disorders in forensic settings
by Sarah Stevenson

– Misogynart: Challenging perceptions of women, violence, and identity through forensic art psychotherapy
by Jessica Collier

CONFERENCE SUMMARY
– Thirty-fourth annual IAFP conference, 28-30 May 2026, Gozo, Malta
by James Rymer O’Malley

BOOK REVIEW
– Pain Bleeds Crime: True Stories From a Forensic Psychologist in Prisons and Out by Pamela Nathan
Reviewed by Timothy Keogh

About the Editor(s)

Hessel Willemsen, DClinPsych, is a training and supervising analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and a member of the New School of Analytical Psychology. He lives, practises and teaches in central London.

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