Forensic Psychiatry

Influences of Evil

By: Tom Mason (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 December 2005

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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."

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Preface	p. v
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Organizations As Evil Structures	p. 15
The Psychopharmaceutical Complex	p. 31
Intention, Excuse, and Insanity	p. 67
An Archaeology of the Psychopath: The Medicalization of Evil	p. 89
The Comforts of Evil: Dangerous Personalities in High-Security Hospitals and the Horror Fill	p. 109
Madness, Badness, and Evil	p. 135
Destruction As a Constructive Choice	p. 153
Violence As Secular Evil: Forensic Evaluation and Treatment of Violent Offenders From the Viewpoint of Existential Depth Psychology	p. 179
Scapegoat, Spectacle, and Confessional: Close Encounters With Sex Offenders and Other Species of Dangerous Individuals	p. 207
The Vilification of Victimized Children in Historical Perspective	p. 231
Evil: A Clinical Perspective	p. 249
Capacities and Dispositions: What Psychiatry and Psychology Have to Say About Evil	p. 259
Should Radical Evil Be Forgiven?	p. 273
Mad, Bad, and Evil: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Evil	p. 295
Talking About Evil, Even When It Is Not Supposed to Exist	p. 313
The Influence of Evil on Forensic Clinical Practice	p. 327
Hope in the Face of Evil	p. 355
Index	p. 367
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