The Police and the Emotionally Disturbed: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Intervention
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
- Vol. 33 (1) , 37-48
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x8903300105
Abstract
Psychoanalytic theory is applied to police crisis situations involving the mentally disturbed. After noting shortcomings of the traditional, commonsensical ways of dealing with such individuals, a discussion of thestrengths of a psychoanalytic method ispresented. It is argued thatpolice officers can achieve greater control in a psychiatric disturbance situation if they conceive of and treat the person more like a system offorces than a set ofpersonality characteristics. Concrete examples are discussed illustrating the method advocated.Keywords
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