FUNCTIONAL METHOD FORENSIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

In psychotherapy, the term 'forensic psychotherapy' is generally appli ed to the treatment of crime suspects and/or detainees, What makes it 'forensic', of course, is the focus on the criminal aspects involved a nd, in somewhat broader terms, on the application of civil and/or admi nistrative law in each case. Examples of this are: court order psychia tric examination/treatment, Disablement Insurance issues, and employer /employee procedures brought for arbitration before the administrative courts. In this paper, the term 'forensic psychoanalytical psychother apy' will focus specifically on the clinical or ambulatory psychiatric treatment of court order patients and other detainees. A largely prag matical psychotherapy method will be discussed in terms of the borderl ine personality disorder, based on basic psychoanalytical techniques s uch as free association, transference/counter-transference, and the ac knowledgement of the problem as the principal aid-instrument for enter ing into discussions on defence-mechanisms.