Pamela Nathan, clinical and forensic psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, uncovers the inner worlds of society’s most dangerous and broken-whether behind bars or hidden in plain sight. In Pain Bleeds Crime, she shares twenty-three gripping true stories from her decades working in maximum-security prisons, courts, and forensic hospitals. The crimes are shocking-murder, rape, paedophilia, assault, fetishism, bestiality, and more-but 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 break-mentally, emotionally, morally. These aren’t excuses. They’re revelations. You’ll come face-to-face with people whose crimes horrified the public-people who insist they’re not violent, or that “it just happened”-and 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 buried-and how behind every act of violence, there’s a story waiting to be told.
