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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789552303321

Autore

Williams Saunders Jessica

Titolo

Life within Hidden Worlds : Psychotherapy in Prisons / / by Jessica Williams Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2001

ISBN

0-429-91569-1

0-429-90146-1

0-429-47669-8

1-283-12569-2

9786613125699

1-84940-326-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Collana

Forensic psychotherapy monograph series

Disciplina

150.195

365.6

Soggetti

Prisoners - Counseling of

Prisoners - Mental health

Prisoners - Mental health services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. An introduction to psychotherapy in prisons: issues, themes, and dynamics; Chapter 2. Psychotherapy in prison: the ultimate container?; Chapter 3. Psychotherapy and the prisoner-impasse or progress?; Chapter 4. The struggle to work with locked-up pain; Chapter 5. Grendon Underwood. A psychotherapeutic prison; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.