Forensic Psychiatry
Influences of Evil
Samenvatting
An international panel of experts from diverse specialties examine the idea of "evil" in a medical context, specifically a mental health setting, to consider how the concept can be usefully interpreted, and to elucidate its relationship to forensic psychiatry. The authors challenge the belief that the concept of "evil" plays no role in "scientific" psychiatry and is not helpful to our understanding of aberrant human thinking and behavior. Among the viewpoints up for debate are a consideration of organizations as evil structures, the "medicalization" of evil, destruction as a constructive choice, violence as a secular evil, talking about evil when it is not supposed to exist, and the influence of evil on forensic clinical practice. Among the highlights are a psychological exploration of the notion of "evil" and a variety of interesting research methods used to explore the nature of "evil."
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Tom Mason
Organizations As Evil Structures
Dave Holmes and Cary Federman
The Psychopharmaceutical Complex
Brian Kean
Intention, Excuse, and Insanity
Tamas Pataki
An Archaeology of the Psychopath: The Medicalization of Evil
Tom Mason
The Comforts of Evil: Dangerous Personalities in High-Security Hospitals and the Horror Film
Mick McKeown and Mark Stowell-Smith
Madness, Badness, and Evil
Deidre N. Greig
Destruction As a Constructive Choice
David A. Winter
Violence As Secular Evil: Forensic Evaluation and Treatment of Violent Offenders From the Viewpoint of Existential Depth Psychology
Stephen A. Diamond
Scapegoat, Spectacle, and Confessional: Close Encounters With Sex Offenders and Other Species of Dangerous Individuals
Dave Mercer and Joel Richman
The Vilification of Victimized Children in Historical Perspective
Victoria Van Slyke
Evil: A Clinical Perspective
J. David Kinzie
Capacities and Dispositions: What Psychiatry and Psychology Have to Say About Evil
Gwen Adshead
Should Radical Evil Be Forgiven?
Marguerite La Caze
Mad, Bad, and Evil: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Evil
Michael Levine
Talking About Evil, Even When It Is Not Supposed to Exist
C. Fred Alford
The Influence of Evil on Forensic Clinical Practice
Tom Mason, Joel Richman, and Dave Mercer
Hope in the Face of Evil
Geri Miller and Ron Hood
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