Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology

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This exceptional book adds to the fast growing area of forensic psychotherapy and shows the relevance of Winnicott's work to therapy with some of the most deprived in our society. Cover Contents Series Foreword Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Winnicott's contribution to the study of dangerousness Chapter 1. Winnicott: a beginning Chapter 2. Babies as transitional objects Chapter 3. Primary maternal persecution Chapter 4. Children who kill their teddy bears Chapter 5. Deprivation and delinquency in the treatment of the adolescent forensic patient Chapter 6. On pseudo-normality: a contribution to the psychopathology of adolescence Chapter 7. Vomit as a transitional object. Chapter 8. Transitional objects in the treatment of primitive mental statesChapter 9. D.W. Winnicott and the understanding of sexual perversions Chapter 10. On the capacity for being inside enough References Index.