Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Perversions, Violence, and Criminality (The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series)

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 endeavor 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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SERIES FOREWORD FOREWORDS Brett Kahr Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC INTRODUCTION An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1996 CHAPTER ONE: The true nature of perversions CHAPTER TWO: Perverse transference and the malignant bonding CHAPTER THREE: Babies as transitional objects: another manifestation of perverted motherhood CHAPTER FOUR: Is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy another case of female perversion? CHAPTER FIVE: Bodies across generations and cycles of abuse CHAPTER SIX: Children who witness domestic violence: what future? An interview with Estela V. Welldon, July 1999 CHAPTER SEVEN: The unique contribution of group analytic psychotherapy for victims and perpetrators of incest CHAPTER EIGHT: Introduction to forensic psychotherapy CHAPTER NINE: From the court to the couch CHAPTER TEN: The Portman Clinic and the IAFP An interview with Estela V. Welldon, November 2010 REFERENCES INDEX 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. Illustrates the author's studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of viewing domestic violence. This title also outlines the development of forensic psychotherapy as a new field of clinical and academic endeavour and the author's involvement in this.