1st Edition

Murder A Psychotherapeutic Investigation

By Ronald Doctor Copyright 2008
    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, a sequel to the edited book Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, places the emphasis on working in psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients who have killed to gain a greater understanding of their internal world and object relationships.

    Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Life after death: a group for people who have killed -- Murder: persecuted by jealousy -- Women who kill: when fantasy becomes reality -- Killing off the shadow: the role of projective identification in murderous acts -- The history of murder -- The dog that didn't bark: a mild man's murderousness

    Biography

    Doctor, Ronald