Explores the psychology of violent and criminal women from a psychodynamic and criminological rspective, also examining the link between childhood experience and adult behaviour. The book uses illustrative case material throughout.
Foreword to first edition by Dr Estela Welldon, Foreword by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Violence against children, 1. The development of maternal abuse: female perversion, 2. Female sexual abuse of children, 3. Maternal physical abuse, 4. Fabricated or induced illness, 5. Infanticide, PART II. Violence against the self, 6. Deliberate self-harm, 7. Anorexia nervosa, PART III. Violence against others, 8. Battered women who kill, PART IV. Clinical applications, 9. Working with women who kill, 10. Hiding and being lost: the case for women-only secure units, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
