Product Description: Matter of Security provides an account of the development of arousal and affect regulation, which offers a new way of thinking about mental disorders in offenders. This book also discusses the development of personality in terms of interpersonal functioning and relationships with others, which is essential to understanding both interpersonal violence and abnormal personality development...read more

Product Description: `Ethics and the literature on this subject can often be dry and hard to make interesting. This book is neither dry nor boring. It raises a number of important questions about carrying out research on forensic mental health, while maintaining a well-balanced approach… Gwen Adshead and Christine Brown definitely meet their aim of providing help to those with little experience in this area...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book reviews the current state of knowledge of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, a type of child abuse which causes wide concern. Two main areas are covered, which will be of particular interest: new directions in research, and treatment of the perpetrator in and outside the family...read more