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Book SynopsisFrom Trauma to Harming Others shows the approach of professionals from the world-renowned Portman Clinic, which specializes in work with violence, delinquency and sexual acting out.
Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the trauma, attachment, mental health, forensic, and addiction world from the well-respected London based Portman Clinic. With rich and informative psychodynamic informed chapters written by a range of experienced and passionate practitioners. Covering mainly from a psychodynamic perspective current and timely topics ranging from pornography and internet sex, to relational trauma, to re-enacting sexual acts, to self-harm. Theories interwoven with concepts, vignettes, and case illustrations. Not to be missed.
Dr Karen Treisman, Clinical Psychologist, Author, and Organisational Consultant
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Key concepts developed at the Portman Clinic, Marianne Parsons; 2: Motiveless malignity: Problems in the psychotherapy of patients with psychopathic features, Anne Alvarez; 3: Considering Perversion from a Portman Clinic Perspective, Donald Campbell; 4: Young people in difficulty with Internet sex and pornography, Graham Music and Heather Wood; 5: Seeing and being seen: the psychodynamics of pornography through the lens of Winnicott`s thought, John Woods; 6: Working with mental hackers and backroom thinkers, Ariel Nathanson; 7: Angels and devils: sadism and violence in children, Graham Music; 8: Oedipal aspirations and phallic fears: on fetishistic presentation in childhood and young adulthood, Ann Horne; 9: Self-harm and the harm of others in adolescents, Tim Baker ; 10: "Securing the disaster zone. Assessing the damage. Sifting through the rubble": The early stages of psychotherapy with a traumatised boy, Patricia Allan; 11: Embracing darkness: clinical work with adolescents and young adults addicted to sexual enactments; 12: The history of the Portman Clinic, Marianne Parsons
