Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press
c1989.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | History of American science and technology series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798358406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Foreword; 1. The Issue of Insane Homicide; 2. The Theoretical Boundaries of Dangerousness, 1800-1840; 3. The Development of a Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity; 4. From Static Brain to Dynamic Neurophysiology, 1840-1870; 5. The Non-Asylum Treatment of the Insane; 6. Homicidal Insanity and the Unstable Nervous System, 1870-1910; 7. Psychoanalysis and Medical Criminology; 8. Somatic and Dynamic Dangerousness, 1910-1960; 9. Prediction, Confidentiality, and the Duty to Warn; 10. The Phenomenology of Homicidal Insanity; Notes; Bibliography; Index
