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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Volume 33 Issue 1 New!

Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Sage PublicationsSage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA - SAGE
ISSN: 0306-624X
SJR: 64

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Journal Article

The Police and the Emotionally Disturbed: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Intervention:

Arcaya, Jose M.

2016 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

doi:10.1177/0306624X8903300105

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...

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