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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1989.
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| Colección: | History of American science and technology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. The central. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817382674 0817382674 9780817304041 0817304045 0817311858 9780817311858 |