Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis

A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

If you, or someone you love, is suffering from a mental disorder, or manic depression, you owe it to yourself to become as informed as possible about the disease. Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis may be a source of good information for you.

Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis


Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis, working in a professional partnership with neurologist Jonathan Pincus, has been steadily accumulating and publishing (in medical journals) evidence that almost all vicious criminals have some combination of (1) a childhood of abuse and/or neglect, (2) brain injuries through accident or abuse, and (3) psychotic symptoms, especially paranoia. This fascinating and well-written book, aimed at a wide audience, takes the form of a memoir in which Lewis tells us about the events that led her to study violent patients and about some of her more interesting cases, especially those on death row. Far from being another shallow "oh wow" book about conversations with horrifying killers, this is a thoughtful, humane examination of the horrible experiences that most murderers have endured, and a penetrating analysis of how subtle signs of brain damage in these people have been missed by other researchers. Lewis has an engagingly humble and personal way of writing about her experiences, which makes her findings all the more credible. --Fiona Webster



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Abyss to Zenith -- Up From Insanity by Reagan Smith | Almost A Revolution by Paul S. Appelbaum | Competence, Condemnation, and Commitment by Robert F. Schopp | Conducting Insanity Evaluations, Second Edition by Richard Rogers, Daniel W. Shuman | The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut | Ethics of Psychiatry by Rem B. Edwards | Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Dorothy Otnow Lewis | Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault | Madness and Modernism by Louis A. Sass | Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia by Emil Kraepelin | Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness by Peter McCandless | Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity by Randy Starr | I'm Not Suffering from Insanity... I'm Enjoying Every Minute of It! by Karen Scalf Linamen | The Other Side of Sight by Jon D. Gemma | Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester | The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester | Psychological Evaluations for the Courts by Gary B. Melton (Editor), John Petrila, Norman G. Poythress, Christopher Slobogin | Punishing the Mentally Ill by Bruce A. Arrigo | Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. by Richard J. Bonnie, John C., Jr Jeffries, Peter W. Low | Wild Beasts & Idle Humours by Daniel N. Robinson Adult Bipolar Disorders by Mitzi Waltz | The Bipolar Child by Demitri Papolos, Janice Papolos | Bipolar Disorder by James T. Stout | Bipolar Disorders: A Guide to Helping Children & Adolescents by Mitzi Waltz | Bipolar Disorders by Mario Maj, Hagop S Akiskal , Juan José López-Ibor, Norman Sartorius | Bipolar Disorder Demystified by Lana R. Castle | Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families by Francis Mark Mondimore | The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide by David J. Miklowitz | Bipolar Medications by Husseini K. Manji, Charles L. Bowden, Robert H. Belmaker | Bipolar Puzzle Solution by Bryan L. Court, Gerald E. Nelson MD | Depression Sourcebook by Karen Bellenir, Rhonda Rhea | Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman | Essential Psychopharmacology of Depression and Bipolar Disorder by Stephen M. Stahl, Nancy Muntner | Fevers of the Mind by Avery Z. Conner | The Life of a Bipolar Child by Trudy Carlson | Manic-Depressive Illness by Frederick K. Godwin M.D., Kay Redfield Jamison | Neural Misfire by Jeff D. Kazmierczak | New Hope for People With Bipolar Disorder by Jan Fawcett M.D., Bernard Golden Ph.D., Nancy Rosenfeld | Overcoming Depression and Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder) by Paul A. Wider | Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder by George T. Lynn | Surviving Manic Depression by E. Fuller Torrey, Michael B. Knable | Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down? by Roger Granet, Elizabeth Ferber | Why Your Depression Isn't Getting Better by Michael R. Bartos | Win The Battle by Bob Olson, Melissa Olson | Yes You Can! by Richard Aaron Mead