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Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
Presents an overview of the research, clinical insights, and ethical dilemmas relevant to clinicians who treat intersex youth and their families. Exploring gender development from a cross-cultural perspective, scholar Cohen-Kettenis and practitioner Pfäfflin focus on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment issues. To bridge research and practical application, they include numerous case studies and definitions of relevant terminology. The volume begins with an overview of typical and atypical development with regard to sexual differentiation and gender identity, then goes on to discuss the clinical management of intersex conditions and gender problems. Legal issues relating to intersexuality and transsexualism also are discussed.
A Matter of Security
As a psychodynamic theory of both normal development and psychopathology, attachment theory has particular utility for forensic psychiatry. A Matter of Security provides an attachment theory based account of the development of arousal and affect regulation, which offers a new way of thinking about mental disorders in offenders. This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understanding both interpersonal violence and abnormal personality development. Attachment theory also offers a model of therapeutic work with patients that have particular resonance with forensic work because it uses the language of security. This collection focuses on attachment theory applied to forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy.
A Matter of Security
It explores the psychodynamic theory of attachment and how it can be used to offer new ways of thinking when working with mental disorders in offenders. Discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understand both interpersonal violence and abnormal development.
International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders
International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Theory, Practice and Research provides the first truly global perspective on the assessment and treatment of sex offenders. Presents a comprehensive overview of current theories and practices relating to the assessment and treatment of sex offenders throughout the world, including the US, Europe, and Australasia Covers all the major developments in the areas of risk assessment, treatment, and management Includes chapters written by internationally respected practitioners and researchers experienced in working with sexual offenders such as Bill Marshall, Ruth Mann, Karl Hanson and Jayson Ware
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Forensic Psychiatry
Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014 Comprehensive and erudite, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. This landmark publication has been completely updated but retains all the features that made the first edition such a well-established text. It integrates the clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry with contributions from internationally regarded experts from a range of clinical professions. The Second Edition features updates to all current chapters and several new chapters that explore: The genetics of antisocial behavior Disorders of brain ...
The German Underworld (Routledge Revivals)
This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. This book is ideal for students of history, particularly the German history.
Der Mensch in der Psychiatrie
In 33 Einzelbeiträgen behandeln führende Wissenschaftler aus der Psychiatrie des In- und Auslandes zentrale Fragestellungen der Psychiatrie: - Das Menschenbild in der Psychiatrie, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen psychiatrischen Denkens und Handelns, Fragen des Krankheitsbegriffs, Sexualität und psychische Erkrankung, Psychotherapie und Zeitgeist, anthropologische Aspekte psychiatrischer Alterserkrankungen - Extremsituationen, Psychiatrie der Verfolgten, KZ-Haft und psychische Traumatisierung, sowie völlig neue Ergebnisse über die Rolle der Universitätspsychiatrie Hamburgs im Kontext der NS-Psychiatrie - zur Psychiatriereform, den Grundrechten in der Psychiatrie, dem Konzept "sexueller Gesundheit" der WHO - zur Erforschung der therapeutischen Beziehung in der Psychiatrie, zu Übertragung und Gegenübertragung und zu deren Einfluß und Auswirkung auf Theoriebildung einzelner Krankheitsbilder und Behandlungsergebnisse.
Ethics and Intersex
This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality. It fills an important need because of its uniqueness as an interdisciplinary effort, bringing together not just urologists and endocrinologists, but gynecologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers, theologians, gender theorists, medical historians, and philosophers. Most contributors are well-known experts on intersexuality in their respective fields. The book is also unique in that it is also an international effort, including authors from England, ...
