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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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The American Journal of Insanity
Author: A Study of Association in Insanity
Author: Grace Helen KentPublisher:
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Category : Association of ideas
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The Curability of Insanity
Author: Pliny EarlePublisher:
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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The American Journal of Insanity
Author: Insanity
Author: Charles Patrick EwingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198043694
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
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.
Homicidal Threats
Author: John M. MacDonald, M.DPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Crime and Insanity in England
Author: Nigel WalkerPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Mad in America
Author: Robert WhitakerPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541646398
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind.
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