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Author: John F. Schumaker
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001-08-30
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Focuses on the psychological and emotional relationship of individuals impacted by the conditions of modern society.
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-01-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0307833100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author: Sarah L. Swedberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1498573878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance. Revolutionaries built the American government based on rational principles, but could not protect it from irrational actors that they feared could cause the body politic to grow mentally or physically ill. This book is recommended for students and scholars of history, political science, legal studies, sociology, literature, psychology, and public health.
Author: Shane Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-11-11
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 1501106813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStevens takes readers on a harrowing descent into the mind of a mass murderer in this eerily realistic serial-killer novel. At the center of this gripping epic novel of mass murder, pursuit, and psychological terror is Thomas Bishop, a psychotic young killer who believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed for rape in California amid intense controversy. Subjected to unmerciful physical and mental torture from an early age, Bishop kills his mother at the age of ten and is placed in an institution for the criminally insane. He grows to manhood knowing the outside world only through a television screen. At twenty-five, he succeeds in a brilliant escape and change of identity and begins to move across the country, murdering women in particularly gruesome ways. Pursued by reporters, police, and the mob, Bishop manages to elude them all, and the search for him becomes the greatest manhunt in US history.The chilling denouement will hold readers spellbound until the shattering, unforgettable conclusion.
Author: Nik Ripken
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1433673088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.
Author: Charles Patrick Ewing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-04-07
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0198043694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.
Author: Mindy Raf
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1101592303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor fans of Louise Rennison, Sarah Mlynowski, and Stephanie Perkins comes a laugh-out-loud, bittersweet debut full of wit, wisdom, heart, and a hilarious, unforgettable heroine. It's kind of crazy how you can pay so much attention to yourself and still not see a thing. Izzy is a hypochondriac with enormous boobs that won't stop growing, a mother with a rare disease who's hiding something, a best friend who appears to have undergone a personality transplant, and a date with an out-of-her-league athlete who just spilled Gatorade all over her. Yes, Izzy Skymen has a hectic life. But what Izzy doesn't realize is that these are only minor symptoms of life's insanity. When she discovers that the people she trusts most are withholding from her the biggest secrets, things are about to get epic -- or is it epidemic?
Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780710079930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: carol piner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-03-19
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0557386934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom start to finish, Evidence of Insanity, the hilarious new book by Carol Piner, is a jaw dropping, full-speed-ahead romp through the life of a girl who stares down disaster with righteous rage and prevails over her extraordinary life. Her character is someone who ""dances shamelessly"" through a maelstrom of events that would bring a man down, but she bounces back and keeps going. This is an amazing story that will leave you both laughing and crying at the same time. Do not pick it up late at night or you will be reading until two to three in the morning. And, do not give your copy to a friend. You probably won't get it back. One reader called this book a, ""Pitch Perfect Telling of a Timeless Story."" She was so very right. One reader has carried this book 6,000 miles. So far.
Author: Susan Vaught
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1599907844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA spooky fantasy filled with terrifying ghost stories from a real-life asylum.
