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Book Review: Violence in Institutions: Understanding, Prevention, and Control

The book provides a comprehensive view of the effect of developmental deviations on the patient's parents. However, notably absent is a discussion of the reverse process (i.e., the effect of parental psychopathology on developmental deviations in children) even if only to debunk these ideas as obsolete. For example, theories about the relationship between maternal neglect and autism or between maternal depression and childhood hyperactivity deserve comment in this context. The volume is free of production errors. The compact layout is somewhat bland and could have easily been spiced up with charts or diagrams, to which the subject matter lends itself. The price is reasonable. Although not a detailed reference volume, this book at least stimulates the practising psychotherapist to re-examine boggeddown cases for potential developmental problems and to add the developmental viewpoint to the formulation of new cases. For this purpose, I highly recommend the book.