Dangerous Lunatics by Brett Kahr

Dangerous Lunatics by Brett Kahr

In the pre-modern era, those who committed serious crimes would invariably be treated with extreme cruelty - often punished, tortured, eviscerated, and executed in the most grisly, sadistic fashion. Over time, the treatment of offenders has become more enlightened and more benign. But have we really progressed sufficiently in our approach to the rehabilitation and cure of vicious perpetrators of savage acts? This book considers the intersection between madness and violence across the ages, and investigates how Sigmund Freud and the early generation of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists challenged the more primitive, punitive models. Professor Kahr also discusses some landmark projects, which help to humanise serious criminal offenders and further our understanding of the ways in which severe early childhood trauma plays an important role in the genesis of extreme criminality.

Brett Kahr is a Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology's Tavistock Relationships and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. He is a member of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and he has published or edited nine works for Karnac Publications' Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series and the History of Psychoanalysis Series. He also serves on the board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in London. He has over 35 years of experience in the mental health area. Coffee with Freud is his most recent book, and Winnicott's Anni Horribiles: The Formation of 'Hate in the Counter-Transference' is his upcoming book.

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ISBN 13	9781913494063
ISBN 10	1913494063
Title	Dangerous Lunatics
Author	Brett Kahr
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Karnac Books
Year published	2020-07-01
Number of pages	216
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