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

Contributor(s): 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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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.

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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