| Description |
1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations |
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History of American science and technology series |
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History of American science and technology series.
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| Contents |
Issue of insane homicide -- Theoretical boundaries of dangerousness, 1800-1840 -- Development of a medical jurisprudence of insanity -- From static brain to dynamic neurophysiology, 1840-1870 -- Non-asylum treatment of the insane -- Homicidal insanity and the unstable nervous system, 1870-1910 -- Psychoanalysis and medical criminology -- Somatic and dynamic dangerousness, 1910-1960 -- Prediction, confidentiality and the duty to warn -- Phenomenology of homicidal insanity |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Forensic psychiatry -- History
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Homicide -- Psychological aspects.
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Mentally ill offenders.
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Forensic Psychiatry -- history
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Homicide -- history
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Mental Disorders -- history
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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Forensic psychiatry
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Homicide -- Psychological aspects
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Mentally ill offenders
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom |
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817382674 |
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0817382674 |
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9780817304041 |
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0817304045 |
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0817311858 |
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9780817311858 |
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