From Trauma to Harming Others : Therapeutic Work with Delinquent, Violent and Sexually Harmful Children and Young People (Paperback)

Introduction; 1: Key concepts developed at the Portman Clinic; 2: Motiveless malignity: Problems in the psychotherapy of patients with psychopathic features; 3: Considering Perversion from a Portman Clinic Perspective; 4: Young people in difficulty with Internet sex and pornography; 5: Seeing and being seen: the psychodynamics of pornography through the lens of Winnicott`s thought; 6: Working with mental hackers and backroom thinkers; 7: Angels and devils: sadism and violence in children; 8: Oedipal aspirations and phallic fears: on fetishistic presentation in childhood and young adulthood; 9: Self-harm and the harm of others in adolescents; 10: "Securing the disaster zone. Assessing the damage. Sifting through the rubble": The early stages of psychotherapy with a traumatised boy; 11: Embracing darkness: clinical work with adolescents and young adults addicted to sexual enactments; 12: The history of the Portman Clinic