Matter of Security provides an account of the development of arousal and affect regulation, which offers a new way of thinking about mental disorders in offenders. This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understanding both interpersonal violence and abnormal personality development.
Author(s): Friedemann Pf¿fflin, Gwen Adshead
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 281
TeamLib......Page 0
Cover......Page 1
Foreword......Page 8
Part I: Theory......Page 12
1. The Developmental Roots of Violence in the Failure of Mentalization......Page 14
2. Attachment Representation, Attachment Style or AttachmentPattern? Usage of Terminology in Attachment Theory......Page 58
3. Fragmented Attachment Representations......Page 86
Part II: Clinical Issues......Page 108
4. The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Later Violent Offending: The Application of Attachment Theory in a Probation Setting......Page 110
Part III: Institutional Issues......Page 146
5. Three Degrees of Security: Attachment and Forensic Institutions......Page 148
6. Forensic Mental Health Nursing: Care with Security in Mind......Page 168
7. Finding a Secure Base: Attachment in Grendon Prison......Page 194
Part IV: Research Data......Page 210
8. Attachment Representations and Factitious Illness by Proxy: Relevance for Assessment of Parenting Capacity in Child Maltreatment......Page 212
9. Violence and Attachment: Attachment Styles, Self-regulation and Interpersonal Problems in a Prison Population......Page 226
10. Attachment Representations and Attachment Styles in Traumatized Women......Page 251
Conclusion: A Matter of Security......Page 261
The Contributors......Page 267
Subject Index......Page 270
Author Index......Page 277
