PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Papapietro, Daniel J.
TI  - Commentary: Psychotherapy in a Forensic Hospital
DP  - 2008 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 567--571
VI  - 36
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/36/4/567.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/36/4/567.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2008 Dec 01; 36
AB  - Very little is written in American forensic journals about psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients committed to forensic hospitals. Relatively little is known of the process of helping these patients cope with their mental illnesses, to gain insight into their crimes and their unconscious dynamics, or simply to cope with the dreary landscape of the forensic maximum‐security institution. In this commentary, the author hopes to shed light on some of those processes.