Forensic psychiatry : influences of evil /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mason, Tom, 1950-2011
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2006]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.