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Part 1 Mainly theory: the criminal act and acting out, Christopher Cordess and Arthur Hyatt-Williams; transference and countertransference - general and forensic aspects, Nicholas Temple; defence mechanisms - general and forensic aspects, Anthony Bateman; related disciplines - the cognitive-behavioural approach, hermeneutics, ethology, criminology, communication, speech and language, systems theory; personality and sexual development, psychopathology and offending, Peter Fonagy; psychotic and borderline processes, Patrick Gallwey; theories of aggression and violence, Felicity de Zulueta; the origins of rage and aggression, Neville Symington; murderous guilt, Nikolaas Treurniet; from practice to psychodynamic theories of deliniquency in adolescence, Don Campbell; a group-analytic perspective, John Schlapobersky; a psychodramatic perspective, Jinnie Jeffries. Part 2 Mainly practice: expectations and ethics, Adrian Grounds; a legal perspective, Stephen Tumim; a police perspective, Barrie Irving; a probation perspective, Deirdre Sutton-Smith; psychodynamic approaches to assessment - a forensic psychiatric interactional perspective, a clinical psychological perspective; group-analytic psychotherapy in an out-patient setting, Estela Welldon; supportive and interpretive psychotherapy in diverse contexts, Murray Cox; the multidisciplinary team - the nurse, the occupational therapist, the social worker, the psychologist, the psychiatrist; the interdisciplinary network and the internal world of the offender, Richard Davies; from our own correspondent - the United States, Australia; purchasing and providing forensic psychotherapy in the market place, Dilys Jones; training - the psychotherapist and clinical tutor, the psychiatrist and clinical tutor; supervision - a supervisor's view, the impact of the first forensic encounter - a trainee's view; the risks of burn-out; sex offending and perversion - collaborative strategies for sex offenders in secure conditions, the out-patient treatment of the sex offender, contrasts in male and female sexual perversions; the trauma organized system of working with family violence, Arnon Bentovim; working with adolescent delinquents, Peter Wilson; psychotherapy and the antisocial personality - the antisocial personality disorder, psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the antisocial personality disorder; psychotherapeutic work with victims of trauma, Gwen Adshead and Cleo van Velson; from abused to abuser, Valerie Sinason; the setting - general considerations, Jan Scheffer; day hospital treatment for borderline patients, Anthony Bateman; the personality-disordered forensic patient and the therpeutic community, Kingsley Norton; psychodynamics and the regional secure unit, Gabriel Kirtchuk and Harriet Hawarth; psychodynamics and the special hospital, Murray Cox. (Part contents).