property for example) and patients with no criminal background (no conviction). Also, their diagnoses varied from schizophrenic psychoses, other psychoses to (severe or minor) personality disorders, sometimes in combination with alcohol or drug addiction (Kobal and Žagar 1994, 266–267). The DFSP staff consisted of one psychiatrist, one social worker, one senior medical technician and three nurses.171 Every patient was received by the head of DFSP and the team. First, the Therapeutic Pact was to be signed, which defined inappropriate behaviour, including excessive drinking, drug-taking and absconding. In case patients breached the Therapeutic Pact, all circumstances were investigated and specific treatment plans could be made. According to Kobal and Žagar (1994, 268–269) it was only rarely necessary “to proceed to discharge, transfer into one of the closed hospital units, further intensive hospital treatment or return to the prison”. According to Kondža and Kobal (2014) each patient had an individual rehabilitation plan. The goal was to rehabilitate the patient and return him to his home environment as soon as possible. Dr. Kobal started TCs and dr. Žagar continued them – and added even more TCs: music therapy, art therapy, recreational therapy, analytical group. Multidirectional communications were established between the offenders and the medical staff, among the medical staff and among offenders themselves. In various groups they met daily or several times a week. There was an analytically oriented group172 for inmates, some patients were part of music therapy or psychodrama, occupational and recreational therapy groups, there was one group led by the social worker and one led by medical staff. Together, staff and patients discussed and agreed on how the ward should function. The staff also met with relatives or patients’ other relevant persons discussing about “the circumstances that should be taken into account in their future contact with the offender” (Kobal and Žagar 1994, 268). During their regular weekly meetings “we also determined 171 In an interview dr. Žagar (2023) said they also had 1/3 psychologist, 1/3 music therapist, 1/3 occupational therapist, 1/5 or maybe even 1/8 of a recreational therapist. 172 “At the time, I was also doing education in group analytical psychotherapy and we also practiced this for them, 3 times a week. We sat down together and sat for an hour and a half. It is important that the therapist encourages the positive that is in the person. It is in everyone, even in these patients. And that we respected them. You know, this respect, as I looked around abroad... what we were supposed to observe abroad, we were better than them. They could come here to learn from us. Abroad, the emphasis was on guarding, protection. But this stank to us, security, because we are not policemen. We are doctors.” (Žagar 2023). 66