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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968939503321

Autore

Reeves Christopher

Titolo

Broken Bounds : Contemporary Reflections on the Antisocial Tendency / / by Christopher Reeves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 2012

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

©2012

ISBN

0-429-91162-9

0-429-47262-5

1-283-37024-7

9786613370242

1-84940-952-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Winnicott studies monograph series

Altri autori (Persone)

ReevesChristopher

Disciplina

305.235

305.90692083

Soggetti

Antisocial personality disorders

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; LECTURE ONE Learning to live with the antisocial tendency: the challenge of residential care and treatment; LECTURE TWO Responses to antisocial youth: does Donald Winnicott have messages for us today?; LECTURE THREE Can the state ever be a "good-enough parent"?; LECTURE FOUR Winnicott's delinquent; LECTURE FIVE Heroic delinquency and the riddle of the Sphinx; LECTURE SIX Society and the antisocial tendency: "physician, heal thyself!"

POSTSCRIPT The "English riots" as a communication: Winnicott, the antisocial tendency, and public disorder

Sommario/riassunto

In 2009-2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the theme of "the antisocial tendency". These lectures are offered



here to the wider public much as they were originally given. The speakers, each one an established figure in child care policy or in the residential and therapeutic management of disaffected youngsters, reflect on society's changing attitudes towards antisocial behaviour and its manifestations over the past half century. They consider how altered childrearing practices, the greater incidence of family break-up, and the increasing part played by central government in the determination of child care policies, have contributed to a shift towards the more punitive attitudes towards "wayward youth" prevalent today. Brief, pointed, and accessible, these lectures address topics of contemporary social concern by identifying some of the underlying questions to be asked regarding the child, the family, and society in a mass-communication and mass-organized environment.