Author: Richard Krafft-Ebing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital.

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: Judith Schlesinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983698241
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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"The mad genius is a favorite cultural stereotype, but despite media caricatures, popular expectations, and the extravagant claims of a few, there's no scientific proof that creative people are crazier than anyone else. Drawing on three decades of research, psychologist Judith Schlesinger tracks the myth from its birth in ancient Greece to modern times, showing how it distorts society's view of our most exceptional minds"--Page 4 of cover.

Author: Richard Krafft-Ebing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: Charles Arthur Mercier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351348175
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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This book was primarily intended for the use of students of medicine, as an introduction to the study of insanity, to give them a general notion of the subject without going into much detail, and incidentally to be of use to them in examinations. It was not intended as an advanced book for those who make a special study of insanity.

Author: Charles Arthur Mercier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Includes section "Book reviews".

Author: Theodore H. Kellogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: National Library of Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: George Frederick Shrady
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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