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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Prof. Spreen: Curiously, you might find some material of interest in Moreno's original work. He was actively engaged in bringing psychodrama to prisons, mental institutions, etc. I suspect that the network mechanisms that your refer to might not be there, but he had lots of ideas on the subject. Rich Rothenberg Spreen, M. wrote: >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > >Dear all, > >in our forensic psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands we are planning to >conduct a network study about what we call the "hidden culture of the >patients". In our hospital we have closed treatment living units of about 12 >male patients. Together with the patients, teams of sociotherapists are >living more or less together with the patients and are treating them on a >daily basis. Often there are some network mechanisms working among the >patients which are not visible for the sociotherapists. For instance the >sociotherapists do think they know which patient has the position of a >leader, but after some incident it turned out that another patient had that >position. Our research problem is that we want to know how our patients >interact with each other, what the influence of the misperception of the >sociotherapy is on aggressive patient behaviours, and whether we can predict >which network structure is lowering aggressive behavior on a living unit. > >Is there any network literature about studies of forensic psychiatric >patients? > >Thanks in advance, >Marinus Spreen > >_____________________________________________________________________ >SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social >network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send >an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line >UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > > > -- Richard Rothenberg, MD Professor Department of Family and Preventive Medicine Emory University School of Medicine 69 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive SE Atlanta, GA 30303 email: [log in to unmask] tele: 404-616-5606 fax: 404-616-6847 _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.