Dangerous patients : a psychodynamic approach to risk assessment and management / edited by Ronald Doctor ; editorial assistance by Sarah Nettleton ; foreword by Pamela Taylor
Introduction / Ronald Doctor -- Pathways of risk: the past, the present, and the unconscious / Daniel Antebi -- Assessment of violence in medium-secure units / Ian Treasaden -- Risk assessment in general psychiatry: a psychoanalytic perspective / Richard Lucas -- The psychodynamic assessment of violence in the general medical hospital, or, taking the "non-body" seriously / John Lowe -- Psychoanalytic aspects to the risk containment of dangerous patients treated in high-security hospital / Carine Minne -- Containment and countertransference issues in a violent borderline patient / Mary Brownescombe Heller -- Risk-taking in the assessment of maternal abilities / Estela V. Welldon -- The role of violence in perverse psychopathology / Ronald Doctor -- Envy and violence in confused sexuality / Kristian Aleman
Summary
Bringing together a well-respected group of clinicians, this text explores the controversial and very topical subject of risk assessment with violent patients
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index
