The Portman Clinic offers a special experience in the psychodynamic understanding of working with offenders. Students are exposed to a range of forensic settings and experiences which enrich and increase their professional development.
The Portman Clinic was founded in 1933 for the specific purpose of studying and treating delinquency and sexual deviancy. The Portman Clinic is an NHS outpatient clinic which offers psychoanalytically orientated assessment, treatment and management for children, adolescents and adults, male and female, who suffer sexual deviations or who engage in delinquent, criminal or violent behaviour.
The purpose of the Clinic is to develop a body of knowledge on criminality, sexual perversion and violence through its clinical work and for this expertise to be disseminated through consultancy, teaching, publication and research. The Clinic has a senior staff team of medical and adult consultant psychotherapists, non-medical and adult principal psychotherapists and principal child psychotherapists. There are currently three trainee specialist registrars in forensic psychotherapy.
Staff, who are all psychoanalysts or psychoanalytic psychotherapists, are drawn from psychiatry, psychology, social work and probation, and have an active commitment to their core discipline through consultancy, teaching and research.
P5 A Foundation in Thinking About Forensic Patients
P4 Specialist Registrar Training in Forensic Psychotherapy
P20 Psychodynamic Approaches to Assessing and Managing Risk
P1 Introducing Psychoanalytic ideas on sexual perversions, delinquency and violence
