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The BASH HOUSE: Within the Bluestone Walls of a Maximum Security Prison

The BASH HOUSE: Within the Bluestone Walls of a Maximum Security Prison This paper is about my supervision of the two probationary psychologists who were employed in a maximum‐security prison to run a high‐intensity violence intervention program for maximum‐security inmates. The psychoanalytic frame became the initial trigger, a scapegoat, for my dismissal as their forensic psychology supervisor. An informal ministerial enquiry followed. I was re‐instated. The context of this breakout/breakdown was the ruptured container of a maximum‐security prison which violently torpedoed into the therapeutic container and reflective edge of the consulting room. The prison's walls hide the dark secrets of crimes. The haunting screams of those murdered are silenced but they ricochet down the corridors of the cell‐blocks. The inmates held captive cry “Mummy, help me, please help me!”, but their cries have been killed off long ago, neither heard nor answered. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

The BASH HOUSE: Within the Bluestone Walls of a Maximum Security Prison

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1742-3341
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10.1002/aps.1345
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This paper is about my supervision of the two probationary psychologists who were employed in a maximum‐security prison to run a high‐intensity violence intervention program for maximum‐security inmates. The psychoanalytic frame became the initial trigger, a scapegoat, for my dismissal as their forensic psychology supervisor. An informal ministerial enquiry followed. I was re‐instated. The context of this breakout/breakdown was the ruptured container of a maximum‐security prison which violently torpedoed into the therapeutic container and reflective edge of the consulting room. The prison's walls hide the dark secrets of crimes. The haunting screams of those murdered are silenced but they ricochet down the corridors of the cell‐blocks. The inmates held captive cry “Mummy, help me, please help me!”, but their cries have been killed off long ago, neither heard nor answered.

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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