Life within hidden worlds: psychotherapy in prisons

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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a practice is the antithesis of a prison regime. Prisons are hard; psychotherapy is porous, permeable. Echoed throughout this book is the obvious paradox that is being worked when practicing psychotherapy in prison. The two are world's apart, yet each can creatively serve the other.

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Full title :Life within hidden worlds : psychotherapy in prisons / edited by Jessica Williams Saunders ; foreword by Sir David Ramsbotham.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Karnac Books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 118 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781849403269, 1849403260, 1283125692, 9781283125697
oclc:ocn730500581
LC Classification:HV6089
Dewey Decimal:365.66

An introduction to psychotherapy in prisons: issues, themes, and dynamics / Jessica Williams Saunders -- Psychotherapy in prison: the ultimate container? / Lynn Greenwood -- Psychotherapy and the prisoner -- impasse or progress? / Ronald Doctor -- The struggle to work with locked-up pain / Paola Franciosi -- Gredon Underwood, a psychotherapeutic prison / Mark Morris.

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Jails Prison psychology Prisoners -- psychology Prisonniers -- Psychologie Prisons Psychotherapie Psychotherapy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology United Kingdom