Life within hidden worlds : psychotherapy in prisons / edited by Jessica Williams Saunders ; foreword by Sir David Ramsbotham.

Contributor(s):

Williams Saunders, Jessica [editor]

Publication details: London : Karnac, 2001Description: xiv, 118 pISBN:

1855752190

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

W 740.

Contents:

An introduction to psychotherapy in prisons: issues, themes, and dynamics / Jessica Williams Saunders -- Psychotherapy in prison: the ultimate container? / Lynn Greenwood -- Psychotherapy and the prisoner -- impasse or progress? / Ronald Doctor -- The struggle to work with locked-up pain / Paola Franciosi -- Gredon Underwood, a psychotherapeutic prison / Mark Morris.

Summary: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a practice is the antithesis of a prison regime. Prisons are hard; psychotherapy is porous, permeable. Echoed throughout this book is the obvious paradox that is being worked when practicing psychotherapy in prison. The two are world's apart, yet each can creatively serve the other.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	W 740 LIF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		020416

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a practice is the antithesis of a prison regime. Prisons are hard; psychotherapy is porous, permeable. Echoed throughout this book is the obvious paradox that is being worked when practicing psychotherapy in prison. The two are world's apart, yet each can creatively serve the other.

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