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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 thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental disease or the disease in itself. It is possible to trace these phenomena throughout the history of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice. A secondary thesis of the book is that psychiatrists have used these phenomena as predictors and markers in the practical

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"Colaizzi, a research historian, has done an excellent, scholarly study of the phenomenon of homicide associated with mental illness, including all the players in this sad, cruel game... the psychiatrist, the afflicted, the official authorities, and finally, society at large." - Academic Library Book Review

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/30/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817311858, 978-0817311858
      ISBN10: 0817311858
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      Book Synopsis
      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 thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental disease or the disease in itself. It is possible to trace these phenomena throughout the history of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice. A secondary thesis of the book is that psychiatrists have used these phenomena as predictors and markers in the practical

      Trade Review
      "Colaizzi, a research historian, has done an excellent, scholarly study of the phenomenon of homicide associated with mental illness, including all the players in this sad, cruel game... the psychiatrist, the afflicted, the official authorities, and finally, society at large." - Academic Library Book Review

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