Routledge Violence in Children: Understanding and Helping Those Who Harm (The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series)

Product Description This book increases the reader's understanding of violent children and the value and vicissitudes of their psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It explores various aspects of violence and the attendant emotional, psychological, biological, and social features in children. Review " Violence in Children consists of a wide-ranging series of contributions from eminent workers in the theory, practice and research into violent behaviour. It traces the many roots of violence to sources in childhood and it seeks to throw light on the complex problems that arise when extreme violence manifests itself in society. However, the authors do not attempt to offer direct and simplistic solutions to these problems. What they do provide is a series of illuminating questions and, above all, a framework for creative thinking from which helpful solutions might be arrived at and applied."--Dr. Bernard Barnett, Director, The Squiggle Foundation, author of You Ought To! , Training and Supervising Analyst"Both the glamorization and the demonization of violence helps us avoid having to understand the violent mind. We should enter the violent person's subjective world, not just in order to be able to offer treatment, but also to better anticipate the nature of the risks they embody both to themselves and to society. The attempt at explanation does not amount to an exculpation; rather, understanding is the first step in the prevention of violence. The answer to the riddle of how an individual can lose restraint over his or her propensity to injure others must lie in what is ordinary rather than extraordinary: normal human development."--Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, Director, Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College, London; Chief Executive About the Author Campher, Rosemary