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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778047103321

Autore

Colaizzi Janet <1936->

Titolo

Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985 / / Janet Colaizzi ; foreword by Jonas R. Rappeport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , 1989

©1989

ISBN

0-8173-8267-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 181 pages) : illustrations

Collana

History of American science and technology series

Disciplina

614.1

Soggetti

Forensic psychiatry - History

Homicide - Psychological aspects

Mentally ill offenders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.