Individual insecurity and distress are problems too often confined to the spheres of sociological analysis or political debate: little attention is paid to the devastating effects that the experience of violence, in its many different forms, can have on the mental health of the single individual.
Research in psychotherapy boasts a level of technical evolution and improvement (in terms of results) that few other areas of clinical psychology can match. Over the past twenty years, the psychological approach to mental disorders has altered radically on the basis of randomised controlled studies.