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Homicide : a psychiatric perspective

Title
Homicide : a psychiatric perspective / Carl P. Malmquist.
Author
Malmquist, Carl P.
Publication
Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, ©1996.

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Description
xi, 395 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective is a reference book for professionals dealing with violence, murder, and suicide, and for others concerned about the level of homicidal violence in American society. Homicide is routinely discussed from statistical or cultural or sociological perspectives, with the main emphasis given to the frequency of people being killed. This book - rooted in clinical psychiatry - considers those who do the killing. Discussions of different diagnoses are used to illustrate how clinical psychiatric conditions have their own special vulnerabilities for violence. Problems of epidemiology, a discussion of the problems of prediction, and the legal system's differing goals are also included. The author, a psychiatric consultant for the District Court of Minneapolis, personally evaluated over 500 people who have committed a homicide.
Subject
  • Homicide > Psychological aspects
  • Murderers > Mental health
  • Mental Disorders > psychology
  • Homicide > psychology
  • Gerichtliche Psychiatrie
  • Psychische Störung
  • Tötung
  • Moorden
  • Psychologische aspecten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Epidemiological aspects of homicide -- Biological factors in homicide -- Schizophrenia, delusional disorders, and the prediction problem regarding homicides -- Borderlines and homicide : the quest for vindication -- Dependent personality disorders and killing -- Narcissism and homicide -- Masochism and homicide : the ultimate enslavement -- The depressed person and homicidal behavior -- Juveniles and homicide -- Sexual killing -- Legal versus clinical views on homicide : diagnosis and voluntariness -- Homicide in the twenty-first century : where knowledge is needed.
ISBN
  • 0880486902
  • 9780880486903
LCCN
95011551
OCLC
  • ocm32205651
  • 32205651
  • SCSB-9125000
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library