Throughout most of human history, our ancestors have done rather poorly when dealing with acts of violence. To cite but one of many shocking examples, let us perhaps recall a case from 1801, of an English boy aged only 13, who was executed by hanging on the gallows at Tyburn. What was his crime? It seems that he had been condemned to die for having stolen a spoon (Westwick, 1940).
SERIES FOREWORD -- EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD by Sir David Ramsbotham -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 An introduction to psychotherapy in prisons: issues, themes, and dynamics /Jessica Williams Saunders -- 2 Psychotherapy in prison: the ultimate container? /Lynn Greenwood -- 3 Psychotherapy and the prisoner—impasse or progress? /Ronald Doctor -- 4 The struggle to work with locked-up pain /Paola Franciosi -- 5 Grendon Underwood. A psychotherapeutic prison /Mark Morris -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
