Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency

Introduction -- The Portman Clinic -- The problem of certain psychic realities -- The internal couple and the Oedipus complex in cases of perversion -- Psychoanalytic contributions to risk assessment and management -- Psychoanalytical aspects to the risk of containment of dangerous patients treated in high security -- Perverse females -- From biting teeth to biting wit -- Brief communications from the edge -- Compulsive use of virtual sex and internet pornography -- Trans-sexuality -- Perverse patients' use of the body-their own and that of others -- Ethical problems treating paedophile patients -- The forensic network and the internal world of the offender 1