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Moving On: A Group for Patients Leaving a High Security Hospital

Dadd Centre, Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berks RG45 7EG, UKgwen.adshead{at}wlmht.nhs.uk

Sharmila Charles

Newbury Centralised Groupwork Service; Dadd Centre, Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berks RG45 7EG, UK.

Natalie Pyszora

Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berks RG45 7EG, UK.

In this paper, the authors describe the work of a group set up for those patients who are leaving a high security forensic psychiatric hospital, all having been detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act for England and Wales. Background information on the hospital is presented, as well as an overall view of the patients and their problems. The origins of the group are documented, followed with examples of group dynamics peculiar to the practice of forensic psychotherapy and conscious and unconscious anxieties on the part of the therapists as well as the patients.

Key Words: therapeutic group • forensic psychiatric patients • forensic psychiatric services • unconscious anxieties • countertransference

Group Analysis, Vol. 38, No. 3, 380-394 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316405055390


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