ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Although many of the people derive great pleasure from the innovativeness and freshness of the newly constituted profession of forensic psychotherapy, the people must not forget that the roots of psychoanalytic work with dangerous and perverse individuals reach back at least into the very early years of the last century. Donald Woods Winnicott's contributions to the field of forensic psychotherapy and to the study of severe psychopathology deserve a book-length treatment, and a lifetime's study. "Deprivation and Delinquency in the Treatment of the Adolescent Forensic Patient", Jeannie Milligan has offered psychotherapists a moving case history that richly illustrates Winnicott's clinical observations and helpfully demonstrates the ways in which Winnicott's clinical concepts can have an immediate impact within the course of a psychotherapy session.
