Personality disorder and homelessness: Membership and 'unhoused minds' in forensic settings

Group Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 452-466

  Adlam, John ^a,b,c   Scanlon, Christopher ^a  

^a Henderson Hospital   (United States)

^b SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Henderson Outreach Service Team   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic assumption; Exclusion coercion; Homelessness; Personality disorder; Structural violence

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGLECT; OBJECT RELATION; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 26044459423     PISSN: 05333164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0533316405055387     Document Type: Review

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