Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders

Introduction. Anne Aiyegbusi, Women's Directorate, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. 1. The Nurse-Patient Relationship with Offenders: Containing the Unthinkable to Promote Recovery. Anne Aiyegbusi. 2. Managing Hate: The Nurse's Counter-transference. Malcolm Kay, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen. 3. Forensic Systems and Organizational Dynamics. Gillian Tuck, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. 4. The Best Defence: Institutional Defences Against Anxiety in Forensic Services. Amanda Lowdell, Ravenswood House Medium Secure Unit, Hampshire Partnerships NHS Trust, and Gwen Adshead, Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. 5. The Dynamics of Difference. Anne Aiyegbusi. 6. Paranoid-Schizoid Functioning within a Forensic Intensive Care Ward. Valerie Anne Brown, Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. 7. Reflecting on Murderousness: Reflective Practice in Secure Forensic Settings. Stephen Mackie, Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. 8. Containment and the Structured Day. Sarita Bose, Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. 9. Nursing Dangerousness, Dangerous Nursing and the Spaces in Between: Learning to Live with Uncertainties. Christopher Scanlon, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, and John Adlam, Henderson Hospital Services, London, UK. 10. The 'Unthought Known': Working with Men with Personality Disorder in a High Secure Setting. Dr Neil Gordon, English National Personality Disorder Development Programme, Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. 11. The Patient, her Nurse and the Therapeutic Community. Rebecca Neeld, The Cassel Hospital, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, and Tom Clarke, South West London and St George's NHS Trust.12. Crying Out for Care. Suzanne McMillan, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, and Anne Aiyegbusi. 13. Working with Suspicious Minds and Balancing Acts. Katie Downes, Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health NHS Trust. 14. A Secure Model of Nursing Care for Women. Jenifer Clarke-Moore, Gwylfa Therapy Service, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, and Dr Miranda Barber, Herefordshire NHS Primary Care Trust. 15. Working with One Another: Service User / Professional. Joanne Roberts, HAFAL Cymru, and Jenifer Clarke-Moore. 16. Loss and the Adolescent Offender. Maria McMillan, East London and the City Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust