Books in the The Portman Papers Series series

Suitable for practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times complicated by severe mental disorders, this book describes familiar anxiety-provoking situations.

Presents theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the institutional difficulties which emerge in the care of the patients alongside chapters on clinical work, with adults and adolescents, including chapters on the compulsive use of internet pornography and transsexuality.