Legal Frontiers in Prison Group Psychotherapy

Module for Prison Intervention : South Asia Preventing Drug Use and HIV Among Incarcerated Substance Users

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Dr. Leary's Concord Prison Experiment: a 34-year follow-up study.

This study is a long-term follow-up to the Concord Prison Experiment, one of the best-known studies in the psychedelic psychotherapy literature. The Concord Prison Experiment was conducted from 1961 to 1963 by a team of researchers at Harvard University under the direction of Timothy Leary. The original study involved the administration of psilocybin-assisted group psychotherapy to 32 prisoners...

Report on the Psychological Treatment of Crime *By W. Norwood East, M.D., F.R.C.P., and W. H. de B. Hubert, B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. With an appendix by Dr. H. T. P. Young, M.B., Ch.B., on the influences of prison conditions in relation to psychotherapy in prison. H.M. Stationery Office, 2s. 6d.

Characteristics of adolescent felons in a prison treatment program.

The entire population of inmates in a prison treatment program for youthful male offenders was studied (N = 43). Based on information from individual and group psychotherapy and from official files, and verified with another therapist, the following was found to be true for more than 50% of the offenders: they had anti-social, anti-authority values; did not know how to be anything other than be...

Educational Needs of Staff to Prevent and Control the Use of Drugs and Psychedelics in Prison: A Qualitative Study

 Objective: The current study aimed to identify the educational needs of prison staff in the field of drugs and psychedelics. Method: The research was applied-exploratory with a case study approach. The statistical sample was in 4 prisons in Tehran, including experts and heads of prisons (N=11) and the deputies and specialist (N=52) separated by job field that were selected purposefully and sno...