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Contains Isaac Ray's "Illustrations of Insanity by Distinguished English Writers"; James Macdonald's "Puerperal Insanity"; Pliny Earle's "A Leaf from and for the Annals of Insanity"; Brigham's "Homicides, Suicides, etc. by the Insane".
Contains chapters: Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior by Goranson; Studies in Leader Legitimacy, Influence, and Innovation by Hollander & Julian; Experimental Studies of Negro-White Relationships by Katz; Findings and Theory in the Study of Fear Communication by Leventhal; Perceived Freedom by Steiner; Experimental Studys of Family by Waxler & Mishler; and Why Do Groups Make Riskier Decisions than Individuals? by Dion, Baron, & Miller.
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."
Contains D. I. Wallis, Aggression in Social Insects—L. Harrison Matthews, Overt Fighting in Mammals—Konrad Lorenz, Ritualized Fighting—K. R. L. Hall, Physiological Background to Aggression—Thelma Veness, Introduction to Hostility in Small Groups—Denis Hill, Aggression and Mental Illness—James Laver, Costume as a Means of Social Aggression—Derek Freeman, Human Aggression in Anthropological Perspective—Stanislav Andreski, Origins of War—Anthony Storr, Possible Substitutes for War—John Burton, The Nature of Aggression as Revealed in the Atomic Age.
Argues that animal competition, both intra- and interspecific, is inevitable and necessary for the evolution of variety.
Bibliographs 3856 items.
Originally published as part of the symposium War and Democracy in 1938.
Brittain p. 80. Expansion of his 1870 essay "Society versus Insanity" published in the September 1870 issue of Putnam's Magazine. Reviews in extensu a number of foreign brutal murders where the insanity defense was invoked, addressing issues of responsibility, self-control, punishability.
Hendrix was professor of pathology at the University of Michigan and deputy medical examiner for Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Examines four murder trials with respect to the insanity plea: James Hadfield (1800); Daniel M'Naughton (1843); Straffen (1952); Gunther Podola (1959).
A study of mass murderers from 1812 on.
Bibliographs 190 items, each with extensive annotation.
22 papers including Charles C. Dahlberg's "LSD as an Aid to Psychoanalytic Treatment"; Paul Hoch's "The Combination of Psychotherapy with Drug Therapy"; Joseph Jaffe's "Electronic Computers in Psychoanalytic Research"; Herbert Spiegel's "The Dissociation-Association Continuum"; I. Markowitz et al.'s "An Investigation of Parental Recognition of Children's Dreams: A Preliminary Report"; 10 papers on violence and warfare including Eibl-Eibesfeldt's "Aggressive Behavior and Ritualized Fighting in Animals," Leonard Berkowitz's "Aggressive Stimuli, Aggressive Responses and Hostility Catharsis," Lewis Coser's "Violence and the Social Structure," Margaret Mead's "Violence in the Perspective of Culture History."
Account of the traumatic early life of the Dutch artist Jan Montyn, who was in the German army in World War II, witnessing the destruction of Dresden, serving on the Eastern Front, and escaping from an Allied POW camp; then joined the French foreign legion, a few years later fighting in Korea.
Sadoff Catalog page 151. An exposition in terms of Natural Law, intended primarily for Catholic physicians.
Monseigneur Perlo was Apostolic Vicar to Kenya.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium on Communication and Affect held at Erindale College, University of Toronto, March 28-30, 1974.
The first part (xii+207pp.) appeared in 1828; the second part (pages 209-361) adds chapters on homicidal monomania, suicide, the incubation of madness, an examination of Broussais' doctrine regarding moral liberty, an examination of a number of criminal trials in which the insanity defense was invoked.A young lawyer at the royal court of Paris, Regnault here attacked the monomania doctrine. "He produced a broad historical survey of medical opinion on insanity, beginning with Boerhaave and running through Pinel and Esquirol, which revealed that the literature contained nothing but a mass of contradictions abuot the nature and bodily locus of mental disease. … The medical community took Regnault's attack very seriously. His book was reviewed in virtually every Parisian medical journal, and the reviews … usually contained attempts at reasoned rebuttal and refutation" [Jan Goldstein, Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, p. 185].
Published in an edition of 1100 copies.
First published in the U.S. in 1945 by Prentice-Hall.
STC 20945; DNB XVI: 933; Lowndes Vol IV, p. 2078 (1869 edition). Little is known about Reynolds, said by the DNB to be a native of Exeter who traveled in France on business. Book I first appeared in 1621, with Books II & III appearing in 1621 and 1622. All six were first published together in 1635, with the edition we have apparently being the second complete edition. It was republished a number of times through the early 18th century with Pordage's 1679 edition being especially noteworthy as adding a section on the revenge of adultery. All the early editions are rare.
Studies the use of the insanity plea in the trial of four 20th century English murderers: Ronald True; Henry Jacoby; Thomas John Ley; John Thomas Straffen.
Explores the fairy-tale fantasies of eight murderers.
OCLC records only one copy, in Germany.
A famous trial for poisoning, discussed in many textbooks of forensic medicine. Although the Crown's case against Smith was strong, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on one count and not proven on the other two counts. After the highly publicized trial she married, moved to West Australia, and died in Melbourne in 1928.
Based on the Brill Memorial Lecture, New York Psychoanalytic Society, November 26, 1968. Presented also before the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, January 11, 1969.
Grinstein 2447.
McDade 3; American Imprints 7702; Sabin 102075.
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.
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