Forensic psychiatry:influences of evil

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Mason Tom, 1950-
Published: Humana Press,
Publisher Address: Totowa, N.J.
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-006-5
Carrier Form: x, 387 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 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.