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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Forensic focus ; 25 |
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Forensic focus ; 25.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Part 1: Theory; chapter 1. The Developmental Roots of Violence in the Failure of Mentalization; chapter 2. Attachment Representation, Attachment Style or Attachment Pattern?; chapter 3. Fragmented Attachment Representation; Part 2: Clinical issues; chapter 4. The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Later Violent Offending; Part 3: Institutional Issues; chapter 5. Three Degrees of Security; chapter 6. Forensic Mental Health Nursing; chapter 7. Finding a Secure Base; Part 4: Research Data; chapter 8. Attachment Representations and Factitious Illness by Proxy |
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chapter 9. Violence and Attachmentchapter 10. Attachment Representations and Attachment styles in Traumatized Women; Conclusion: A matter of security; The Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index |
| Summary |
As a psychodynamic theory of both normal development and psychopathology, attachment theory has particular utility for forensic psychiatry. A Matter of Security provides an account of the development of arousal and affect regulation, which offers a new way of thinking about mental disorders in offenders. This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understanding both interpersonal violence and abnormal personality development. Attachment theory also offers a model of therapeutic work with pati |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal psychology.
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Attachment behavior.
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Object Attachment
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Forensic Psychiatry -- methods
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Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods
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Violence -- psychology
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Pathology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Attachment behavior
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Criminal psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pfäfflin, Friedemann.
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Adshead, Gwen.
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| ISBN |
058547107X |
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9780585471075 |
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1846424216 |
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9781846424212 |
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