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Ahto was Assisstant Prison Psychiatrist in the 1940s at Turku Central Prison in Finland.
A study in forensic examination of children.
Grinstein 4409.
By a member of the Chicago Bar, intended for lawyers. Chapters 19-21 cover insanity.
Facsimile reprint of the Philadelphia 1858 first American edition.
Contains Robert Sadoff's "Violence in Families: An Overview"; Frank A. Elliott's "Neurological Factors in Violent Behavior"; Marvin E. Wolfgang's "Family Violence and Criminal Behavior"; Seymour L. Halleck's "Psychodynamic Aspects of Violence"; Henry H. Foster, Jr.'s "Violence Toward Children: Medicolegal Aspects"; John Money & June Werlas's "Folie à Deux in the Parents of Psychosocial Dwarfs: Two Cases."
13 papers including Henderson's "Psychopathic Constitution and Criminal Behaviour"; MacCalman's "Functional Nervous Disorders after Injury"; East's "Physical Factors and Criminal Behaviour" Glover's "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Delinquency".
Howard pioneered prison and asylum reform in 18th century England.
First person account by the Florida mental patient whose case established the legal rights of involuntarily held patients.
Collects his essays published in Current Contents from 1962 to 1976.
Sadoff Collection page 120.
Written from a Freudian standpoint.
Chapters on Judges, Experts and Juries; Will-Making and Breaking; Simulation and Imposture; Political Murders; the Dangerous Insane; Capital Punishment.
Examines four murder trials with respect to the insanity plea: James Hadfield (1800); Daniel M'Naughton (1843); Straffen (1952); Gunther Podola (1959).
Facsimile reprint of the 1911 Little Brown first edition in English. Originally issued in the Modern Criminal Science Series.
A text written for lawyers.
Narcotics and Narcotics Addictionwas a standard book in the field and saw four editions from 1954 to 1971. It is distinguished from the many period books on the subject by its extensive glossary of words and phrases used by addicts and in the illegal drugs trade (60 pages in this third edittion).Philologist and pioneer sociolinguist who did pioneer work in the argot of the underworld, Maurer was for decades Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Louisville. In his The Big Con (Bobbs-Merrill, 1940) "he describes in intriguing detail the operation of the big con in various settings" [Patterson Smith, "The Literature of Frauds and Swindles", AB, 1997, 99:17, p.1368]. The screenplay of The Sting so closely borrowed from Maurer's book that he sued for $10,000,000 for copyright infringement. The suit was settled out of court.
Autobiographical account by a Baltimore psychiatrist, originally trained as a Roman Catholic priest, who trained under Meyer at Hopkins and from 1917 to 1929 had served as chief medical officer for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.
Overholser was superintendent of St Elizabeths (the government hospital for the insane in Washington, DC) and past president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Reprint of the 1st 1838 edition.
Facsimile reprint of the 1838 first edition.
Facsimile reprint of the 1871 5th (and last) enlarged edition.
Rotman headed the Psychiatric Institute of the Municipal Court of Chicago from 1928 to 1948. Sharp was the Institute's Director of Research.
Schlapp was Professor of Neuropathology at the NY Post-Graduate Medical School.
Contains a section on rare and bizarre Behaviors.
Singer came to the US in 1904; directed the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute 1907-1920; from 1921 he was Professor and chief of the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois; editor-in-chief of the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry from 1934 until his death.
Sadoff Collection page 166. Smith was Medical Officer of H. M. Prison, Birmingham; Lecturer on Criminology in the University of Birmingham.
Hamblin was Medical Officer at the Birmingham (England) prison and Lecturer in Criminology in the University of Birmingham and at Bethlem Royal Hospital.
Stearns was Dean of Tufts College Medical School.
Stryker served for many years as general counsel for the Medical Society of the State of New York.
Sadoff Collection page 174.
Contains George E. Dix's "Criminal Responsibility and Mental Impairment in American Criminal Law: Response to the Hinckley Acquittal in Historical Perspective"; Paul S. Appelbaum's "Informed Consent"; Vernon L. Quinsey's "Sexual Aggression: Studies of Offenders Against Women:" Thomas L. Hafemeister et al's "Behavioral Expertise in Jury Selection"; Thomas G. Gutheil's "Forensic Assessment"; Seymour L. Halleck's "The Assessment of Responsibility in Criminal Law and Psychiatric Practice."
Contains 20 papers on Dutch forensic psychiatry; Grant Wardlaw's "The Psychology of Political Terrorism"; Thomas Grisso's "Psychological Assessments for Legal Decisions"; Christopher D. Webster & Robert J. Menzies' "The Cllinical Prediction of Dangerousness"; Richard Rogers' "Assessment of Malingering Within a Forensic Context."
Wertham's fourth book, in which he presented to a popular audience his theory of the Catathymic Crisis where an act of violence provides a solution to severe emotional conflict whose real nature remains below the person's threshold of consciousness. He discusses his own role in a number of celebrated murder cases, attempting in each case to uncover the effect of social forces in creating the impulse to murder.
Sadoff Collection page 175. White's second and last book on forensic psychiatry.
Willemse was lecturer in psychology at the University of Pretoria.
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