Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985

by Janet Colaizzi

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304045
• ISBN13: 9780817304041
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"