Forensic Psychiatry Influences of Evil /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mason, Tom (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Forensic Medicine.

Many conscientious mental health professionals caring for disturbed patients have either unscientifically formulated for themselves notions of "evil" to explain the behavior of their patients, or have been given patients described by judges and the press as "evil." Although such...