Explorations in Criminal Psychopathology : Explorations in Criminal Psychopathology
Louis B. Schlesinger, Louis B Schlesinger (Contributor)
When Explorations in Criminal Psychopathology: Clinical Syndromes With Forensic Implications was first published in 1996, the purpose was, in part, to correct an imbalance in the field, specifically with regard to the coverage of the important topic of psychopathology and its relationship to crime. The second edition of this book continues to address the complex approach to this very specific and important aspect of human behavior. Emphasizing on psychopathology from a clinical phenomenological perspective, with legal issues and implications playing a secondary role, an impressive group of con
eBook, English, 2007
2nd ed
Charles C Thomas, Springfield, 2007
1 online resource (395 pages)
9780398085391, 0398085390
1241762000
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EXPLORATIONS IN CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; CONTENTS; SECTION I: DISORDERS OF BEHAVIOR; Chapter 1: THE CATATHYMIC PROCESS:PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND PSYCHODYNAMICS OF EXTREME INTER PERSONAL VIOLENCE; Chapter 2: PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; Chapter 3: IDIOSYNCRATIC ALCOHOL INTOXICATION (Revisited):A CONSTRUCT THAT HAS LOST ITS VALIDITY (Still)?; Chapter 4: ORGANIC BRAIN DYSFUNCTIONS AND CRIMINALITY; Chapter 5: SADISTIC CRIMINAL AGGRESSION: PERSPECTIVES FROM PSYCHOLOGY, CRIMINOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE; SECTION II DISORDERS OF THOUGHT Chapter 6: FORENSIC ASPECTS OF DELUSIONAL MISIDENTIFICATION ASSOCIATED WITH AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCEChapter 7: A CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE OBSESSIONAL FOLLOWER:*; Chapter 8: FORENSIC ASPECTS OF FACTITIOUS DISORDER; Chapter 9: MORBID JEALOUSY AND CRIMINAL CONDUCT; Chapter 10: PSEUDOLOGIA FANTASTICA AND PATHOLOGICAL LYING: A FORENSIC ISSUE; SECTION III BORDERLINE AND PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; Chapter 11 GANSER'S SYNDROME, PRISON PSYCHOSIS, AND RARE DISSOCIATIVE STATES; Chapter 12 THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONDUCT DISORDER FOR MALES WHO DEVELOP SCHIZOPHRENIA:; Chapter 13: DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER Chapter 14 FORENSIC ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER:Chapter 15: ASSESSMENT OF MALINGERING IN CRIMINAL SETTINGS; NAME INDEX
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