Forensic Books at Karnac Books

Good Practice in Working with Violence

Edited by Hazel Kemshall, Jacki Pritchard

Designed to be relevant for a variety of practice settings, this text provides a comprehensive guide to the techniques and skills required for good practice in assessing and managing violence. (more)

Managing High Security Psychiatric Care

Edited by Charles Kaye, Alan Franey

The contributors examine the management of these services in the light of their experiences and involvement with the Special Hospitals throughout the lifetime of the Special Hospitals Service... (more)

Basic Forensic Psychiatry

by Malcolm Faulk

This text has been generally updated and, over 20 new sections, covers areas such as: false confessions, multiple homicides, the sexual abuse of children, Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, the role of... (more)

Remorse and Reparation

Edited by Murray Cox

A comprehensive attempt to bring together forensic clinicians and those working within the criminal justice system. This text examines the complex relationship between remorse, shame, guilt and... (more)

Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology: Winnicottian Perspectives

Edited by Brett Kahr

This exceptional book adds to the fast growing area of forensic psychotherapy and shows the relevance of Winnicott's work to therapy with some of the most deprived in our... (more)

Assessing men who sexually abuse

Edited by David Briggs

Providing practical guidance on how best to assess sexual offenders, this work fuses contemporary theory with an awareness of the subjective nature of the work. Assessment in various settings is... (more)

Recovered memories and false memories

Edited by Martin Conway

The question of whether memories can be lost and then 'recovered' through psychotherapy has polarised the field of memory research. This book aims to bring together the evidence relating to how... (more)

What Evil Means to Us

by C. Fred Alford

The author of this study interviewed working people, prisoners, and students in order to discover how people experience evil - in themselves, in others and in the world. Drawing on psychoanalytic... (more)

Challenges in Forensic Psychotherapy

by Hjalmar Van Marle

Based on a conference held in 1994, this collection of essays looks at current issues challenging the newly emerging discipline of forensic psychotherapy. The contributors are leading members of the... (more)

A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy

Edited by Estela V. Welldon, Cleo Van Velsen

This practical text covers both the theory and practice of forensic psychology, and contains a range of case studies concerning not only violent crime but also 'white collar' crime. It also provides... (more)

What works: reducing re-offending: Guidelines from research and practice

by James McGuire

256 pages. (more)

Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient

by Christopher Cordess, Murray Cox

This compendium of forensic psychotherapy brings together the contributions of over 50 authors. It aims to cover all aspects - both theoretical and applied - of this field. 715 pages. (more)

Counselling in Criminal Justice

by Brian Williams

This work describes the many settings in which counselling is used with offenders, victims of crime and criminal justice professionals under stress. Using case material, it explores the dilemmas -... (more)

Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children: Eclectic Group Conductors and Creative Play

by M. Leticia Franieck, Niko Bittner

Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.

The authors explore how this form of group work can... (more)