Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse

Introduction - abuse, the individual and the social, Carol-Ann Hooper and Una MnCluskey. Part 1 The individual and interpersonal contexts of abuse: an object-relations perspective on the development of the person, Jeremy Hazell; attachment theory and abuse - a developmental perspective, Jeremy Holmes; relationships as a function of context, Frances B. Carter; is human nature intrinsically abusive? reflections on the psychodynamics of evil, Phil Mollon. Part 2 The social, cultural and political contexts of abuse: exile - paradoxes of loss and creativity, Nancy Caro Hollander; abuse in religious institutions - an exploration of the psychosocial dynamics in the Irish context, Una McCluskey; what cost assimilation and integration? working with transcultural issues, Lennox Thomas; intimacy, gender and abuse - the construction of masculinities, Stephen Frosh; sexual orientation and abuse, Francis Mondimore. Part 3 Working with individuals in clinical settings: inner silence - one of the impacts of emotional abuse upon the developing self, Susan Van Dias; treatment or torture? working with issues of abuse and torture in the transference, Shirley Truckle; the abuse of learning disabled people - living and working with the consequences, Valerie Sinason; dissociative identity disorder and memories of childhood abuse, Phil Mollon. Part 4 Working with individuals and groups in organizational settings: containment, supervision and abuse, Dick Agass; working as an organizational consultant with abuse encountered in the workplace, Judith Brearley. Part 5 Psychodynamic reflections on social policy: desire and the law, Andrew Cooper; social work responses to domestic violence in the context of child protection, Margaret Bell; reparative experience or repeated trauma? child sexual abuse and adult mental health services, Carol-Ann Hooper and Juliet Koprowska; the repudiated self - the failure of social welfare policy for older people, Joan Harbison.