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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781125203321

Autore

Abrahams Joseph <1916->

Titolo

This Way Out [[electronic resource] ] : A Narrative of Therapy with Psychotic and Sexual Offenders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : University Press of America, 2009

ISBN

1-282-56185-5

9786612561856

0-7618-4637-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/1656

616.89152

Soggetti

Group theraphy

Psychotic Disorders

Sex Offenses

Psychiatry

Health & Biological Sciences

Psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 3. The Integrated Group; Chapter 4. Courses of Individual Patients in the Groups; Chapter 5. Summary and Inferences; Chapter 6.The Work as Therapy and Research; Chapter 7. The Maximum Security Mental Hospital of the Future; Appendix A. Glossary of Terms; Appendix B. Occupational Therapy, the Parallel Program; Appendix C. Photographs of Howard Hall; Annotated Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an account of work done six decades ago in Howard Hall, the maximum security section of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. The two volumes of this work help fill a need for specific data on what transpires in psychotherapy, especially that of sexual and psychotic offenders.