ABSTRACT

The author brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes explosive-studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of viewing domestic violence. Along with these are vivid descriptions of group analytic psychotherapy with forensic patients and, uniquely, of the joint group treatment of incest survivors and perpetrators. She also outlines the development of forensic psychotherapy as a new field of clinical and academic endeavour and her involvement in this. In a series of interviews with Brett Kahr she describes her professional journey, from being trained by Horacio Etchegoyen in her native Argentina, followed by an eye-opening period at the Menninger Clinic, then eventually to London and a distinguished career at the Portman Clinic.

chapter One|25 pages

The true nature of perversions

chapter Five|13 pages

Bodies across generations and cycles of abuse

chapter Eight|52 pages

Introduction to forensic psychotherapy

chapter Nine|49 pages

From the court to the couch

chapter Ten|12 pages

The Portman Clinic and the IAFP