Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing forensic democratic therapeutic communities / Alisa Stevens -- Dovegate therapeutic community : bid, birth, growth and survival / Eric Cullen and Alan Miller -- The Van der Hoeven clinic : a flexible and innovative forensic psychiatric hospital based on therapeutic community principles / Judith de Boer-van Schaik and Frans Derks -- A therapeutic distinction with a difference : comparing American concept-based therapeutic communities and British democratic therapeutic community treatment for prison inmates / Douglas S. Lipton -- Towards a social analytical therapy / John Shine -- Putting principles into practice : the therapeutic community regime at HMP Grendon and its relationship with the 'good lives' model / Michael Brookes -- Personality disorder : using therapeutic communities as an integrative approach to address risk / Richard Shuker -- Psychodrama as part of core therapy at HMP Grendon / Jinnie Jefferies -- Self and social function : art therapy and readiness for treatment in a therapeutic community prison / Bill Wylie -- Undertaking therapy at HMP Grendon with men who have committed sexual offences / Geraldine Akerman -- Reflections on Grendon : interviews with men who are about to leave / Elizabeth Sullivan -- 'This can't be real' : continuity at HMP Grendon / Lorna A. Rhodes -- The experience of officers in a therapeutic prison : an interpretive phenomenological analysis / James McManus -- Emotional influence and empathy in prison-based therapeutic communities / Karen Niven, David Holman and Peter Totterdell -- The quality of life of prisoners and staff at HMP Grendon / Guy Shefer -- Suicide and self-injurious behaviours at HMP Grendon / Adrienne Rivlin -- Changes in prison offending among residents of a prison-based therapeutic community / Margaret Newton -- Changes in interpersonal relating following therapeutic community treatment at HMP Grendon / Richard Shuker and Michelle Newberry -- The experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) prisoners in a therapeutic community prison / Michelle Newberry -- Research in prison / Martin J. Fisher, Carol Ireland and Elizabeth Sullivan.

"Grendon opened in 1962 as an experimental psychiatric prison to provide treatment for prisoners with antisocial personality disorder. Today it is run by a prison service governor but continues to operate a unique regime in that its six wings are all autonomous therapeutic communities"--Provided by publisher.