Academic Publications

Stephen does research in Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology and Psychoanalysis. His main areas of interest are shame, male psychopathology, masculinity and risk.

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Books

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending. The authors draw on their considerable experience working with high risk individuals in assessment and treatment.

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Violence and Mental Disorder: A Critical Aid to the Assessment and Management of Risk (Forensic Focus)

Violence and Mental Disorder takes the debate about violence into new territory by increasing our understanding of the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence. This comprehensive and critical review of the literature is intended for a broad audience, including clinicians, researchers and policy makers working in this complex area.

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Academic Publications

Treating Profound Shame States in Men with Antisocial Personality Disorder with Mentalization Based Treatment

Journal of Clinical Psychology (2026)

Blumenthal, S. & Yakeley, J.

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From Tragedy to Tyranny

Journal of Psychosocial Studies (2024)

Blumenthal, S.

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Mother Nature and Father Time

British Journal of Psychotherapy (2022)

Blumenthal, S.

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A State of Inbetweenness: the challenges of working with disavowal

Winner of the 2021 Estela Welldon essay prize. British Journal of Psychotherapy (2021)

Blumenthal, S.

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Who Am I? Who Are We? Individual and Group Identity Through a Psychological Lens

European Judaism (2022)

Blumenthal, S.

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The Triarchic Psychopathy Measure and Violence in Offenders with Personality Disorder

Journal of Violence (2019)

Gray, N., Blumenthal, S., Wood, H., Shuker, R., Fonagy, P., Alonby, M., Flynn, A., Takala, T. & Snowden, R.

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Implicit measurement of violence related cognitions.

Psychology of Violence (2018)

Blumenthal, S., Gray, N., Wood, H., Shuker, R., Fonagy, P., Alonby, M., Flynn, A., Takala, T. & Snowden, R.

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Those to Whom Evil is Done, Do Evil in Return: Understanding the Language of Violence

J Forensic Sci Criminol 2(2): 202 (2014)

Blumenthal, S.

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Psychoanalytic diagnosis: understanding personality structure in the clinical process (2nd ed). Book review (2014)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 28(2):233-234

Blumenthal, S.

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Evaluation of the Impact of a Consultation in a Secure Setting

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 21, 233-244 (2011)

Blumenthal, S., Richards, R. & Brown, M.

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The role of affect in the estimation of risk

Journal of Mental Health, 19 I(5), p 444-451 (2010)

Blumenthal, S, Huckle, C., Richardson, P. & Craissati, J.

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A Psychodynamic approach to working with offenders: an alternative to moral orphopaedics. In A. Bartlett & G. McGauley (Eds) (2010)

Forensic Mental Health. Oxford: OUP.

Blumenthal, S.

The development of a specialist hostel for the community management of personality disordered offenders (2009)

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 19, 43-53.

Blumenthal, S. and Craissati, J.

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Violence as communication (2007)

Criminal Justice Matters. 66, 4-6.

Blumenthal, S.

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Editorial: Violence and its Institutions (2002)

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 12 (2), 1-4.

Blumenthal, S.

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Developmental aspects of violence and the institutional response (2000)

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 10 (3), 185-198.

Blumenthal, S.

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Cognitive Distortion and Blame Attribution in Sex Offenders (1999)

Child Abuse and Neglect, 23(2), 129-143.

Blumenthal, S., Gudjonsson, G. and Burns, J.

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Role, Organisation and Burnout amongst Support Workers (1998)

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 42(5).

Blumenthal, S. and Lavender, A.

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Audit of an Adult Family Therapy and Consultation Clinic in a General Hospital Setting (1998)

Family Therapy Context, 38, 32-36.

Blumenthal, S., Seth, R., Turnbull, G., Mouratoglou, V., David, A.

The Role of Clinical Psychologists in Community Mental Health Teams (1997)

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 4(3), 192-200.

Blumenthal, S. and Lavender, A.

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Memory, attention and executive function in chronic fatigue syndrome (1996)

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 60, 495-503.

Joyce, E., Blumenthal, S. and Wessely, S

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The Cost of Mental Health Review Tribunals (1994)

Psychiatric Bulletin, 18, 274-276.

Blumenthal, S. and Wessely, S.

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The pattern of delays in Mental Health Review Tribunals (1994)

Psychiatric Bulletin, 18, 398-400.

Blumenthal, S. and Wessely, S.

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Psychiatry and the Criminal Justice System: the Involvement of General and Forensic Psychiatrists (1993)

British Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 4 (3), 569-574.

Blumenthal, S. and Wessely, S.

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Diversion from Custody: Current Provision and Difficulties (1993)

Probation Journal, July.

Blumenthal, S., Wessely, S. and Soper, P.

A National Survey of Current Arrangements for the Diversion of the Mentally Disordered Offender from Custody in England and Wales (1992)

British Medical Journal, 305, 1322-5.

Blumenthal, S. and Wessely, S.

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