Forensic Psychotherapy

doi:10.1017/9781108686976.022

Chapter 20 - Forensic Psychotherapy

from Section 1 - Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021

Jessica Yakeley

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Rachel Gibbons and

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Forensic psychotherapy is the application of psychological knowledge to the assessment, treatment and management of mentally disordered offenders and patients who commit violent or destructive acts against others or themselves. Forensic psychotherapy creates a bridge between forensic psychiatry with its main focus on mental illness and risk, and psychoanalytical psychotherapy which aims to understand the conscious and unconscious motivations of offender or forensic patient [1]. Forensic psychotherapy emerged from a psychoanalytic theoretical framework, which continues to be its predominant influence, although its remit has widened to encompass other psychodynamic approaches, including group psychotherapy and therapeutic community approaches, and it is also influenced by the related disciplines of psychology, criminology, sociology, ethology, neuroscience, philosophy and ethics.

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Information: Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 259 - 272

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108686976.022 [Opens in a new window]

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