Doctor as murderer

The Mind of the Murderer

Cases are cited, some from the author's professional experience, ?f murders committed under the influence of schizophrenia, hysteria, mental deficiency, paranoia, epilepsy, melancholia, and lowering of the blood sugar, and of murder by psychopaths, with reference to the background of the crime, the mental state of the criminal and the legal outcome. In some instances the data inevitably fail to...

The self-murderer from Orminge

Community as Doctor

This is a very welcome reissue in paperback form of a study first published in 1960 of the work of the Henderson Hospital for patients with personality disorders. Dr. Rapaport and his associates made a critical examination for four years of the working of this pioneer unit and tried to make some assessment of its results. It was an immensely difficult task and the conclusions inevitably tend to...

What Manner of Man Is the Murderer ?

THERE is probably no subject upon which such diversity of opinion exists as the personality of the murderer. Not even within professional circles is there any great measure of agreement, and certainly the world in general has of late had much cause to reflect. In the first place most of us have unhesitatingly concluded that the recent years of war and violence must account indirectly for manv a...

The Mind of a Child Murderer

A great deal of emotion, prejudice and rage faces the man who kills a child. Dr. Arthur Hyatt Williams, consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic and Oakwood Hospital, is a psychotherapist at Wormwood Scrubs prison. Here, he analyses the public reaction and the motives of the offender. News of the murder of a child evokes a general reaction of horror and anger from the public. The flare-u...