The Internal World of the Juvenile Sex Offender

'Dr Keogh's book is a landmark study of some of the most damaged of our society's children. Because of the thorough, multi-perspective approach to these damaged and damaging children, his book does more than intelligently illuminate the hurt done to these children. In highlighting the sub-groups that characterize this group - often until now treated as a homogeneous group - he makes it possible to see which young offenders are best treated with which types of intervention, what our goals should be in intervening, and which children have the best prognosis. But more generally, his book is a model approach to understanding children that should be applied to other problems in child psychiatry, such as attention deficit, anxiety, and depressive disorders. We are generally lacking this kind of careful in-depth study, so it is a pleasure and an education to read this fine example. I recommend this book to all involved in helping young offenders, but I also strongly recommend it to anyone interested in the complexity of child development and child developmental disorders.'- Dr David A. Scharff, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC, USA'Problem sexual behaviour is a major social problem, with many young offenders serially transgressing before being identified. Understanding their motivation, thoughts and feelings is essential if we are to identify as well as help them. Timothy Keogh's book represents a major contribution empowering clinical efforts to deal with this problem - tragically, commonly regarded as intractable. Dr Keogh provides a coherent and helpful clinical model which, as all good theories, will be of great practical help to all those working with juvenile sex offenders.'- Professor Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor, University College London 'This is an impressively scholarly and comprehensive text, but it is clearly written and accessible, obviously the product of someone who has a deep appreciation of and concern for the subject matter. In addition, though the book presents us with conceptual and clinical thinking relating specifically to the juvenile sex offender, the reader will learn about concepts which are also applicable to the forensic and personality disordered adult patient.'- Stanley Ruszczynski, Clinical Director, Portman Clinic, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, from the Foreword