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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colaizzi, Janet, 1936-

Series:

History of American science and technology series.

History of American science and technology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic psychiatry--History.

Forensic psychiatry.

Homicide--Psychological aspects.

Homicide.

Mentally ill offenders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0-8173-8267-4

OCLC:

424525291