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0449002772
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9780449002773
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449002772
ISBN-13
9780449002773
eBay Product ID (ePID)
908558

Product Key Features

Book Title
Guilty by Reason of Insanity : a Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers
Number of Pages
301 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Forensic Psychology, Mental Health, Criminal Law / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Law, True Crime, Psychology
Author
Dorothy Otnow Lewis
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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97-046400
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"COMPELLING." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt    The New York Times "RIVETING . . . POWERFUL . . . READS LIKE A TOP-DRAWER SUSPENSE THRILLER." --New York Post "A REFRESHING AND COMPELLING LOOK AT THE WORKINGS OF THE CRIMINAL MIND." --ANN RULE "SPELLBINDING . . . A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY." --SHERWIN B. NULAND, M.D. "GRIPPING." --The Boston Globe From the Paperback edition., "COMPELLING." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt    The New York Times "RIVETING . . . POWERFUL . . . READS LIKE A TOP-DRAWER SUSPENSE THRILLER." --New York Post "A REFRESHING AND COMPELLING LOOK AT THE WORKINGS OF THE CRIMINAL MIND." --ANN RULE "SPELLBINDING . . . A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY." --SHERWIN B. NULAND, M.D. "GRIPPING." --The Boston Globe
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
364.1/523/019
Synopsis
Everyone has felt the urge to kill. Most people don't kill. Some people do. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, has spent the last quarter century studying the differences between those who do and those who don't. Among the murderers she has examined are the notorious killers Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now, she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them. Guilty by Reason of Insanity is the gripping, brilliantly written true story of Dr. Lewis's search to understand those who kill. The unforgettable cases revealed here clearly illustrate how the disparate elements of brain damage, paranoia, and family brutality combine to create a killer. It starts at a juvenile court in New Haven. A thirteen-year-old girl--out of the blue, in broad daylight--has stabbed her best friend to death before an audience of gaping classmates. Dr. Lewis convinces her colleague, the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, to help her figure out why. Thus begins a collaboration that continues to this day. The passion to understand the underpinnings of violence draws the Lewis-Pincus team to the psychiatric and forensic wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and then to prisons around the country--eventually leading to the corridors of death row and to an infamous gallery of condemned killers. There we meet a thirty-six-year-old woman who forms a sexual attachment to a fourteen-year-old boy. Together, they kidnap, torture, and ultimately murder a teenaged girl. Suddenly, in the midst of the interview with the doe-eyed, soft-spoken murderess, a menacing, male persona appears and Dr. Lewis finds herself face-to-face with her first case of multiple personality disorder, a condition she never before believed existed. We sit in on the psychiatric evaluation of a condemned boy who, at seventeen, raped and murdered a seventy-six-year-old nun. Only after his death does Dr. Lewis discover the grotesque secrets of his childhood that finally explain his murderous rage and his bizarre choice of victim. Powerful, controversial, and utterly absorbing--including an intense final interview with an executioner--Guilty by Reason of Insanity is a tour de force, a compelling odyssey of one extraordinary psychiatrist striking a delicate balance between emotion and objectivity. It will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself.
LC Classification Number
HV6133.L49 1998

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