Dr Anne Aiyegbusi is Deputy Director of Nursing, Specialist and Forensic Services within West London Mental Health NHS Trust. She has worked as a nurse in forensic mental health services for many years and is interested in integrating forensic psychotherapy with the nursing role. Additionally, she is interested in attachment theory and its application within forensic services.
Introduction. 1. What the Eye Doesn't See: Ethics, Boundaries and Forensic Mental Health. Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, UK. 2. The Patient's Experience of Professional Abuse in the Psychological Therapies. Dawn Devereux, Director of Public Support, Clinic for Boundary Studies, UK. 3. Boundary Violations: Are Transgressing Professionals Beyond Help? Jonathan Coe, Managing Director, Clinic for Boundaries Studies, UK and Glen Gabbard, The Gabbard Centre, Houston, Texas, USA. 4. Therapy in Perversion: Seduction, Destruction and Keeping Balance. David Jones, Consultant Psychotherapist, DSPD Service, East London NHS Foundation Trust, UK. 5. Group Work for Offence Perpetrators with a History of Boundary Violations in the Hospital Setting. Estelle Moore, Clinical and Forensic Psychiatrist and Chartered Scientist, Broadmoor Hospital, UK and Emma Ramsden, Drama Therapist and Clinical Supervisor, Broadmoor Hospital, UK. 6. Moving with the Patient: Boundary Phenomena in Forensic Drama Therapy. Mario Guarnieri, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Dramatherapist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK. 7. Music Therapy in Forensic Settings. Stella Compton-Dickinson, Lead Clinical Specialist in Arts Therapies, Rampton Hospital, UK and Dr. Andy Benn, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Rampton Hospital, UK. 8. Working with Families in Forensic Settings: A Systemic Perspective on Boundaries. Jo Bownas, Family Therapist, WLMHT, UK. 9. Boundaries in Forensic Mental Health Nursing: Set in Stone or Shifting Sands? Gillian Kelly, Consultant Nurse, Women's Directorate, WLMHT, UK, and Emma Wadey, Consultant Nurse, DSPD, WLMHT, UK. 10. Boundaries and Desire in Forensic Mental Health Nursing. Professor Cindy Peternelj-Taylor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. 11. Boundaries and Boundary Violations in the Nurse Patient Relationship with People Diagnosed with Personality Disorders in DSPD and WEMMS: Some Findings from a Mixed Methods Research Study. Anne Aiyegbusi, Deputy Director of Nursing, Specialist and Forensic Services, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, UK. 12. Boundary Violations in Medium Secure Settings. Gabriel Kirtchuck, Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, West London Forensic Services, UK, David Reiss, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, West London Forensic Services, UK and Brian Darnley, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, UK. 13. Therapeutic Boundaries in Working with Young People in an NHS Secure Adolescent Forensic Unit. Claire Dimond, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, WLMHT, UK and Denise Sullivan, Ward Manager, Wells Unit, Forensic Adolescent Directorate, WLMHT, UK. 14. Boundary Transgressions as a Tool for Reparation within Therapeutic Relationships. Rebecca Neeld, Group Analyst and Lead Nurse, Cassel Hospital, UK and Tom Clarke, Associate Director of Nursing, South West London and St George's NHS Trust and Honorary Lecturer, Kingston University, UK. 15. Boundaries and Borderline Personality Disorder. Kingsley Norton, Consultant Psychotherapist, WLMHT, UK. 16. Boundaries and Working with Serious Offenders who also have Severe Personality Disorder in a High Secure Setting. Professor Derek Perkins, Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Broadmoor Hospital, UK. 17. Mothering on the Edge: Boundary Failures in Maternal Care. Anna Motz, Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust, UK. 18. Boundaries with a Learning Disability. Richard Curen, Chief Executive, Respond, UK. 19. Dangerous Liaisons: Close Encounters of the Unboundaried Kind. Christopher Scanlon, Consultant Psychotherapist, SLAM, UK and John Adlam, Adult Psychotherapist, SWL&SG, UK. 20. Neither here nor there, not one thing or another: The Use of a Reflective Practice Group to Understand the Distortion of a Boundary. Stephen Mackie, Consultant Forensic Nurse Psychotherapist, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, UK. 21. Boundaries and Homicide. Ronald Doctor, Consultant Psychotherapist, WLMHT, UK and Maggie McAlister, Forensic Adult Psychotherapist, WLMHT, UK. References. Index.
Forensic mental health practice requires careful and intelligent management of the relational dynamics between professionals and clients in a wide range of health and criminal justice settings. Work in this specialist field stands or falls on the effective management of boundaries. This collection of papers, contributed by practitioners from a wide range of services, offers access to the learning necessary to support safe and effective practice, including risk management. Additionally, this volume has the potential to make a significant contribution to the professional development of a growing workforce at the centre of this complex work'.
