Pain Bleeds Crime: Stories from a forensic psychologist in prisons and out.

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"The most dangerous people I met werent monsters. They were broken children wearing adult faces."
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Pamela Nathan, clinical and forensic psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, uncovers the inner worlds of societys most dangerous and brokenwhether behind bars or hidden in plain sight.

InPain Bleeds Crime, she shares twenty-three gripping true stories from her decades working in maximum-security prisons, courts, and forensic hospitals. The crimes are shockingmurder, rape, paedophilia, assault, fetishism, bestiality, and morebut what lies beneath is often even more confronting.

Each offender, whether male, female or transgender, reveals a hidden world shaped by trauma, pain, and silence. Pamela enters these inner worlds to feel and then to have revealed the internal crime scenes, to see what made them breakmentally, emotionally, morally. These arent excuses. Theyre revelations.

Youll come face-to-face with people whose crimes horrified the publicpeople who insist theyre not violent, or that it just happenedand come face-to-face with the dark truth: the past never really goes away. With unflinching honesty and rare insight, Pamela shows how the past never really stays buriedand how behind every act of violence, theres a story waiting to be told.

Brutally honest, deeply unsettling, and impossible to forget, Pain Bleeds Crime is a journey into the darkest parts of humanity.

"Mad, bad, or sadwhen we listen to the story, we see the person."

"A chilling exploration of the trauma and pain behind the most heinous crimes."

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Pamela Nathan is a clinical and forensic psychologist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with more than 40 years of experience working across prisons, courts, forensic services, public health, and private practice. She has lived and worked in central Australia and continues to consult with Aboriginal communities through CASSE Creating A Safe and Supportive Environment a psychoanalytically informed not-for-profit organisation based in Alice Springs. Pamela has authored three previous books A Home Away from Home, Health Business, and Settle Down Country (with accompanying film) and published over 30 papers in forensic and clinical psychology, sociology, Aboriginal health, trauma, and psychotherapy. She is committed to amplifying the voices of her clientswhether they be inmates, patients, or Aboriginal peopleand making psychological insight accessible and deeply human. A founding board member of both the Australian Forensic Psychotherapy Association and CASSE, she is also a member of VAPP, PACFA, and APS. Throughout her career, Pamela has shared her work at numerous conferences and in publications, always with the goal of telling untold stories and revealing the human truths beneath crime and suffering.