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De la folie considérée sous le point de vue pathologique, philosophique, historique et judiciaire
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Louis Florentin Calmeil |
On the subject of lunacy, considered from the pathological, philosophical, historical and judiciary aspects: from the renaissance of the sciences in Europe to the 19th century; description of the gre… |
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Delirium
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Laura Restrepo |
From the Publisher: In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Rest… |
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Delirium
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Laura Restrepo |
"Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn't know what … |
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Alone with the devil
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Ronald Markman |
Profiles the author's career as a forensic psychiatrist, recounting the many frightening criminals he has faced, including the Hillside Strangler, Juan Corona, and members of the Manson family |
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Clinical psychiatry
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Emil Kraepelin |
xvi, 562 p., [12] leaves of plates : 22 cm |
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The insanity plea
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William J. Winslade |
The material presented on the seven cases in this book is, for the most part, based upon court transcripts and judicial decisions. We have limited interviews of participants in order to place the rea… |
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The Spring of the Tiger
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Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert |
When Sarah Ashington's actress mother dies after a devastating scandal, Sarah is left at her long-lost father's rambling, ancestral estate to face the disturbing questions of her own past. Then her f… |
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Death of a "Jewish American princess"
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Shirley Frondorf |
In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his l… |
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A treatise on insanity
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Philippe Pinel |
Fascim. reprint of a translation of the 1801 ed., London : Cadell and Davies, 1806. |
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A Mind That Found Itself
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Clifford Whittingham Beers,Clifford Whittingham Beers |
This book tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his… |
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