Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality

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Karnac Books, Apr 8, 2011 - Psychology - 320 pages
Estela Welldon 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.

About the author (2011)

Dr Estela V. Welldon, MD, HonDSc, FRCPsych, is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at Tavistock and Portman NHS Clinics. She is the Founder and the Honorary Life President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. In 1997, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by Oxford Brookes University. Welldon works privately as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and organizational consultant. She is a Member of the British Association for Psychotherapy, the British Psychoanalytic Council, the Institute of Group Analysis, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the International Association for Group Psychotherapy. She is the author of 'Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood' (1988) and 'Sadomasochism' (2002) and is the main editor of 'A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy' (1997).

Bibliographic information

TitlePlaying with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality
The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series
AuthorEstela V. Welldon
PublisherKarnac Books, 2011
ISBN1780498241, 9781780498249
Length320 pages
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