Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

This book offers a vital psychoanalytic overview of antisocial personality disorder, a condition that causes great distress to its sufferers, their families, and society. Following a historical introduction to how psychoanalysts, from Freud onwards, have conceptualised sociopathy, psychopathy, and delinquency, Jessica Yakeley presents a contemporary psychoanalytic understanding of antisocial personality disorder which integrates current psychoanalytic theory with cutting-edge empirical research findings from developmental and attachment studies.Drawing on her own experience of working with antisocial and violent patients, she offers a psychoanalytic framework to inform clinical work in managing and treating individuals with a diagnosis of this disorder.The reader is introduced to general treatment principles, followed by the latest evidence-based psychoanalytically-informed therapies for the condition.Yakeley also discusses the particular needs and treatment of specific populations of