Forensic psychiatry:influences of evil
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Humana Press,
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Publisher Address: | Totowa, N.J. |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-006-5 |
Carrier Form: | x, 387 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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9781597450065 (electronic bk.) 1597450065 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | D919 |
CLC: | D919.3 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Organizations as evil structures / Dave Holmes and Cary Federman -- The psychopharmaceutical complex / Brian Kean -- Intention, excuse, and insanity / Tamas Pataki -- An archaeology of the "psychopath": the medicalization of evil / Tom Mason -- The comforts of evil: dangerous personalities in high-security hospitals and the horror film / Mick McKeown and Mark Stowell-Smith -- Madness, badness, and evil / Deidre N. Greig -- Destruction as a constructive choice / David A. Winter -- Violence as secular evil: forensic evaluation and treatment of violent offenders from the viewpoint of existential depth psychology / Stephen A. Diamond -- Scapegoat, spectacle, and confessional: close encounters with sex offenders and other species of dangerous individuals / Dave Mercer and Joel Richman -- The villification of victimized children in historical perspective / Victoria Van Slyke -- Evil: a clinical perspective / J. David Kinzie -- Capacities and dispositions: what psychiatry and psychology have to say about evil / Gwen Adshead -- Should radical evil be forgiven? / Marguerita La Caze -- Mad, bad, and evil: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and evil / Michael Levine -- Talking about evil, even when it's not supposed to exist / C. Fred Alford -- The influence of evil on forensic clinical practice / Tom Mason, Joel Richman, and Dave Mercer -- Hope in the face of evil / Geri Miller and Ron Hood. |