Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings

Serge Frisch is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is chairman of the EFPP and also a founding member of the 'Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche Clinique en Psychanalyse de l'Enfant et de l'Adulte' in Luxembourg and is involved in the training activities of that organization. He is co-editor of 'Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings', and has published on the relationship between psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the social field. R.D. Hinshelwood is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and currently holds the post of Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and previously was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond. He is a past Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities. Professor Hinshelwood has written extensively on psychoanalysis and founded the 'International Journal of Therapeutic Communities' (now 'Therapeutic Communities') in 1980 and the 'British Journal of Psychotherapy' in 1984.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Beyond the treatment contract: psychoanalytic work in the public mental hospital -- Integrated theoretical/clinical and organizational models for the institutional treatment of psychosis -- The role of institutional settings in symbolization -- The hospital in the mind: in-patient psychotherapy at the Cassel Hospital -- A psychoanalytic hospital unit for people with severe personality disorders -- “How hard can you kick a baby before it dies?”: psychotherapy in an institution for disturbed children -- Treatment and management of the sexually deviant and criminal: an out-patient facility -- Children in torture-surviving families: child psychotherapy within a family-orientated context -- The adolescent psychotic and the context of residential treatment -- Psychoanalytically orientated in-patient treatment -- The legacy of power play in societies for psychoanalytic psychotherapy

'We need to be continually vigilant and keep our heads clear for thought as well as emotion. This is no minor task. And we have to be ready for it. In my view, there is no better way to prepare ourselves than to be exposed to clear headed reflection about these issues. That is where a book of thoughtful papers such as this becomes essential. These papers, in my view, are not just treatises by people wanting to share obscure issues with each other; they form an essential clinical support to keep us clear-headed and our functions integrated.'- R.D. Hinshelwood, from his Foreword