“The self-murderer from Orminge”

The self-murderer from Orminge

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...

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...

The "Pseudocommando" mass murderer: part II, the language of revenge.

In Part I of this article, research on pseudocommandos was reviewed, and the important role that revenge fantasies play in motivating such persons to commit mass murder-suicide was discussed. Before carrying out their mass shootings, pseudocommandos may communicate some final message to the public or news media. These communications are rich sources of data about their motives and psychopatholo...