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Homicidal Insanity 1800-1985
Janet Colaizzi
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Paperback. Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts." Series: History of American Science and Technology Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: JKV; MMH; MMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders. But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar. Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same. The central thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental ... Read more
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders. But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar. Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same. The central thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
History of American Science and Technology Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817311858
SKU
V9780817311858
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About Janet Colaizzi
Janet Colaizzi is research historian who resides in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Reviews for Homicidal Insanity 1800-1985
"Colaizzi, a research historian, has done an excellent, scholarly study of the phenomenon of homicide associated with mental illness, including all the players in this sad, cruel game... the psychiatrist, the afflicted, the official authorities, and finally, society at large." - Academic Library Book Review