by Darian Leader and Judy Groves (1996)
Jacques Lacan is now taking his place as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud, Jung and Klein. Darian Leader, a practising psychoanalyst and senior lecturer in psychoanalytic studies at England's Leeds University, clarifies the central ideas of Lacanian theory. He guides the reader through Lacan's early studies of paranoia, and on to his analytical innovations - including the incorporation of structural linguistics into Freudianism. For anyone intrigued by Lacan's ideas but discouraged by the apparent arcane quality of his writings, here is the ideal introduction.
Herschel Prins
Part I Legal and adminstrative frameworks -- 1 Problem areas revisited -- Responsibility (liability) for crime -- 3 Systems of disposal -- Part II Clinical considerations -- 4 Mental disturbance -- 5 Psychopathic disorder : a useful label -- 6 Violence and homicide -- 7 Fire-raising -- 8 Sexual behaviour and misbehviour -- 9 Will they do it again? -- 10 Training : enhancing understanding -- 11 Concluding comments.
Joanna R. Adler and Jacqueline M. Gray
These papers provide an in-depth overview of forensic psychology, demonstrating the scope and techniques of forensic psychology in key areas of research, policy and practice. They raise questions for research, and show ways in which research can aid the practice of criminal justice.
Richard A. Isay
L'omosessualità ha sempre rappresentato un tema scottante per gli psicoanalisti, divisi, fin dai tempi di Freud,tra quanti la vedono come uno stato patologico (di volta in volta definito perversione, condizione di immaturirà psichica ecc.) e quanti la considerano semplicemente una delle tante possibilità di espressione della sessualità umana. ''Essere omosessuali'' è il primo libro che descrive da una prospettiva non patologica lo sviluppo psichico omosessuale. Privilegianmdol'indagone sulla omosessualità maschile, e rileggendo in ^chiave critica non tanto l'opera Siegmund Freud quanto alcune delle sue derivazioni nell'ambito sella psicanalisi americana, Richard Isay affianca le proprie riflessioni teoriche alracconto diclasi clinici ricavati da un'esperienza più che ventennale di psicoterapie con uomini gay. Isay giunge alla conclusione che la persona omosessuale ha un'identità psichica integrata, matura e suscettibile alla patologia né più né meno di quella eterosessuale, e che ogni tentativo di modificare l'orientamento sessuale ha consequenze dolorose sia per l'individuo che per la società
Doug Underwood
To attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma--crime, violence, warfare--as well as psychological profiling of deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters and by borrowing from their own traumatic life stories to shape the themes and psychological terrain of their fiction. In this book, Doug Underwood offers a conceptual and historical framework for comprehending the impact of trauma and violence in the careers and the writings of important journalist-literary figures in the United States and British Isles from the early 1700s to today. Grounded in the latest research in the fields of trauma studies, literary biography, and the history of journalism, this study draws upon the lively and sometimes breathtaking accounts of popular writers such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Graham Greene, and Truman Capote, exploring the role that trauma has played in shaping their literary works. Underwood notes that the influence of traumatic experience upon journalistic literature is being reshaped by a number of factors, including news media trends, the advance of the Internet, the changing nature of the journalism profession, the proliferation of psychoactive drugs, and journalists' greater self-awareness of the impact of trauma in their work. The most extensive scholarly examination of the role that trauma has played in the shaping of our journalistic and literary heritage, Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss discusses more than a hundred writers whose works have won them fame, even at the price of their health, their families, and their lives.