All Words Make a Life Sentence: Attachment and Narratives in Forensic Psychotherapy*

Forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and group analyst and has worked for the last twelve years as a consultant forensic psychotherapist at Broadmoor hospital, mainly running therapy groups. She has co-edited five books, published over a hundred book chapters and journal papers, and is currently working on a book about evil. “Attachment theory has been an immensely helpful paradigm for me and has helped me to understand the problems of my patients in a different way. Friedemann Pfafflin and I published a book on the relevance of attachment theory for forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy, with particular emphasis on attachment narratives: and we hope that this will stimulate colleagues to explore further how this theory can help us to help offenders find their way back to a more social life.” E-mail: