Psychic Assaults and Frightened Clinicians

'...a fascinating read for mental health workers regardless of their own theoretical background. Working with disturbed and disturbing individuals in secure settings produces strong feelings, and working with those feelings is undoubtedly an essential part of providing care effectively. This book is likely to challenge readers' understandings of their own actions and reactions.' (Dr Neil Brimblecombe, Director of Mental Health Nursing, Department of Health, and Nurse Director, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.)

John Gordon

Series Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Caring amid victims and perpetrators: trauma and forensic mental health nursing , The dreaded and dreading patient and therapist , X-treme group analysis: on the countertransference edge in inpatient work with forensic patients , Bearable or unbearable? Unconscious communication in management , Thoughts from consulting in secure settings: do forensic institutions need psychotherapy? , Interpersonal dynamics in the everyday practice of a forensic unit , Conclusion , Afterword