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A prison doctor's personal perspective of the management of people with personality disorder in prison
Author(s) -
MURPHY D.P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
criminal behaviour and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1471-2857
pISSN - 0957-9664
DOI - 10.1002/cbm.1992.2.2.144
Subject(s) - prison , perspective (graphical) , personality , psychology , psychiatry , personality disorders , medicine , criminology , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence
The management of people with personality disorder within prison raises fundamental medical issues including the identification of treatable individuals and how to ensure that this group receives treatment, whether in the prison setting or outside. For the prison doctor perhaps the most serious problem of all is how to manage those people rejected by NHS doctors as untreatable, and how to ensure that, as far as possible, systems are in place in the prisons to meet the basic needs of this group. Some suggestions are mnde for achieving this.