Disabling Perversions : Forensic Psychotherapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities /
Alan Corbett.
- London : Karnac Books, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 186 pages)
- The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Towards forensic disability psychotherapy; CHAPTER ONE Disabling perversion: building a theory of forensic disability therapy; CHAPTER TWO Mapping the unknown world: a narrative approach to risk assessment; CHAPTER THREE When I grow up I want to have sex: working with children and young adults; CHAPTER FOUR Speak no evil: the role of creative therapies in working with severe disability; CHAPTER FIVE The disability transference: transference and countertransference issues. CHAPTER SIX Grieving the imagined baby: on working with families of forensic disability patientsCHAPTER SEVEN Sex as an SOS: group analytic perspectives; CHAPTER EIGHT The disabled organisation: on supervision and consultation; CHAPTER NINE On saying I don't know: expedient disabilities and mind envy; REFERENCES; INDEX.
The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades of clinical work, the author examines how to assess risk and danger in the forensic disability patient, ways of working therapeutically with patients at all ends of the disability spectrum, and how to support members of the patient''s network. Combining psychoanalytic, creative, forensic and systemic thinking, the book provides a template for assessing, managing, containing and treating those who.