Guilty by reason of insanity
Subtitle: a psychiatrist explores the minds of killers
By: Dorothy Otnow Lewis
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Mentally ill offenders.; Murderers -- Psychology.
Description: Everyone has felt the urge to kill. Most people don't kill. Some people do. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, has spent the last quarter century studying the differences between those who do and those who don't. Among the murderers she has examined are the notorious killers Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now, she shares her groundbreaking discoveries - and the chilling encounters that led to them.

Guilty by Reason of Insanity is the true story of Dr. Lewis's search to understand those who kill. The cases revealed here clearly illustrate how the disparate elements of brain damage, paranoia, and family brutality combine to create a killer.
Notes: Includes index.