Forensic psychiatry
Subtitle: influences of evil
By: edited by Tom Mason.
Contributors: Mason, Tom, 1950-
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Forensic psychiatry; Good and evil; Forensic Psychiatry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Organizations as evil structures / Dave Holmes and Cary Federman; title: The psychopharmaceutical complex / Brian Kean; title: Intention, excuse, and insanity / Tamas Pataki; title: An archaeology of the "psychopath": the medicalization of evil / Tom Mason; title: The comforts of evil: dangerous personalities in high-security hospitals and the horror film / Mick McKeown and Mark Stowell-Smith; title: Madness, badness, and evil / Deidre N. Greig; title: Destruction as a constructive choice / David A. Winter; title: Violence as secular evil: forensic evaluation and treatment of violent offenders from the viewpoint of existential depth psychology / Stephen A. Diamond; title: Scapegoat, spectacle, and confessional: close encounters with sex offenders and other species of dangerous individual / Dave Mercer and Joel Richman; title: The villification of victimized children in historical perspective / Victoria Van Slyke; title: Evil: a clinical perspective / J. David Kinzie; title: Capacities and dispositions: what psychiatry and psychology have to say about evil / Gwen Adshead; title: Should radical evil be forgiven? / Marguerita La Caze; title: Mad, bad, and evil: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and evil / Michael Levine; title: Talking about evil, even when it's not supposed to exist / C. Fred Alford; title: The influence of evil on forensic clinical practice / Tom Mason, Joel Richman, and Dave Mercer; title: Hope in the face of evil / Geri Miller and Ron Hood.