Author: Colaizzi, Janet
Title: Homicidal Insanity, 1800 - 1985
Description: Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, x,181 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Issue of Insane Homicide; The Theoretical Boundaries of Dangerousness, 1800-1840; The Development of a Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity; From Static Brain to Dynamic Neurophysiology, 1840-1870; The Non-Asylum Treatment of the Insane; Homicidal Insanity & the Unstable Nervous System, 1870-1910; Psychoanalysis & Medical Criminology; Somatic & Dynamic Dangerousness, 1910-1960; Prediction, Confidentiality, & the Duty to Warn; The Phenomenology of Homicidal Insanity.

Keywords: Forensic Psychiatry, History of Medicine, Psychology, Medical Criminology, Jurisprudence, Homicidal Insanity, Homicide Insane, Mental Illness,