Author: Carl Elliott
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791429518
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Arguing that there is little useful that can be said about the responsibility of mentally ill offenders in general, Elliott looks at specific mental illnesses in detail; among them schizophrenia, manic-depressive disorders, psychosexual disorders such as exhibitionism and voyeurism, personality disorders, and impulse control disorders such as kleptomania and pyromania. He takes a particularly hard look at the psychopath or sociopath, who many have argued is incapable of understanding morality.
Author: Arthur Ladbroke Wigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: Matthew Blakeway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992796150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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In assuming that mental illness is a mathematical problem, The Logic of Madness analyses how a human action can be deviant even when rational. It reveals that a person without a genetic or brain abnormality can have an apparent mental disorder that is entirely logical in its structure.
Author: Susan Vaught
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599907844
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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A spooky fantasy filled with terrifying ghost stories from a real-life asylum.
Author: Charles Patrick Ewing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198043694
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.
Author: Arthur Ladbroke Wigan
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298708878
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Arthur Ladbroke Wigan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331468977
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Excerpt from A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and of the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and Shewn to Be Essential to Moral Responsibility; With an Appendix, on the Influence of Religion on Insanity I will only add, in anticipation and deprecation of critical censure, that a man cannot well be accused of precipitation or presumption who waits till his sixtieth year to promulgate opinions he has held during half his life with daily increasing conviction; which he believes to be of the greatest importance in medicine, morals, and jurisprudence - ia the management of the insane - ia the treatment of criminals - the education of youth - and, above all, in the discipline of imperfect, defective, and distorted minds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Arthur Ladbroke Wigan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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ISBN: 9780461244571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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ISBN: 9780461409772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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