Lester D. Stephens Janet Colaizzi Jonas R. Rappeport
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years.The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders.But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar.Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same.The central thesis...
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change durin...
In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an excellent museum of natural history. Examining the scientific activities and contributions of John Bachman, Edmund Ravenel, John Edwards Holbrook, Lewis R. Gibbes, Francis S. Holmes, and John McCrady, Lester Stephens uncovers the important achievements of Charleston's circle of naturalists in a...
In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only ...
