The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy: Volume 8 Number 1

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

The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy: Volume 8 Number 1

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : July 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 90
  • Category :
    Forensic
  • Category 2 :
    Journals & Periodicals
  • Catalogue No : 98695
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The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy (IJFP) is published in conjunction with the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and its avowed aim is to “Re-humanise the de-humanised”. It promotes the health of offenders and victims through the use of psychotherapeutic understanding, risk assessment, and treatment techniques, and advances 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, Massimo De Mari and Wayne Bodkin

ARTICLES
– Pet murder and the infanticidal attachment
Brett Kahr

– The illusion of love in murder–suicide
Massimo De Mari

– Right-brain psychotherapy: The use of art and the art of countertransference—implications for forensic psychotherapy
Leslie M. Lothstein and Jim Rymer O’Malley

– Psychological torture: The traumatic triad and the systematised torture method
Alfred Garwood

– Gender, truth, and reinterpreting the past: The splitting of the ego as a defence against reality
Hessel Willemsen

REGULAR ARTICLE
– A day in the life of Millfields
Angela Foster

– In addition to the book review of Treating High-Risk Offenders with Personality Disorder: What Can Work When Prison Doesn’t?
edited by Celia Taylor & Brittni Jones

BOOK REVIEWS
– Right From Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption by Jacob Dunne
Reviewed by Annie Pesskin

– Unspeakable: Stories of Survival and Transformation After Trauma by Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne
Reviewed by Sarah Byrne

– Selected Essays of Ladson Hinton: Psychoanalytic and Existential Reflections on Shame and Temporality edited by Hessel Willemsen
Reviewed by Maggie McAlister

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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