Download or read book We Are All Innocent by Reason of Insanity written by Kathleen Brugger and published by Aeogia Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all star in our own personal reality-movie that plays constantly on an inner screen of awareness. We confuse this subjective melodrama with objective reality, which means we are deluded about what is real. We are ALL Innocent by Reason of Insanity defines "insanity" as: confusing our mind-generated reality with actual reality. In practical terms, this translates as confusing subjective opinion with objective fact. For example: "I made a mistake" is an objective fact. "I made a mistake because I'm a loser" is a subjective opinion. When I think and act as if the subjective opinion is an objective fact I'm confused about what is real. It is this confusion of fantasy with fact that makes me insane. What better explanation for dysfunctional human behavior than universal insanity? What better way to explain why loneliness, fear, and hatred are so familiar and love so rare? Why so many people need to use alcohol and drugs just to get through another day? Why half of all marriages end in divorce? Free will is revealed to be just another one of our delusions. We are driven by subconscious psychological forces over which we have no control. This is good news! This means the end of blame, shame, and arrogance. The recognition of universal insanity is the key to compassion: we're not right in our minds. By understanding that all hurtful behavior-from gossip to mass murder-proceeds from insane thinking, we can experience compassion for ourselves and everyone else. The book includes references to recent scientific and psychological research that demonstrates how out of touch with reality we really are. Other references range from Zen stories to the Three Stooges. The author uses examples from her own life to illustrate how we all build a personal subjective reality-"My Story." She also shares her personal growth as she faces her own insanity. This book is for adult audiences. There is a chapter on sexuality and passages in other chapters that discuss sex in an explicit manner. Sanity is achieved through the questioning of My Story. Sanity is humble, compassionate, accepting, and loving. This book will transform the way you see yourself and the world. By the co-author of The Game of God: Recovering Your True Identity "A great book about God." - Oprah Recommended reading "if you really have your shit together." - Tim Allen

Download or read book The Meaning of Criminal Insanity written by Herbert Fingarette and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

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Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Abraham S. Goldstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1967-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insanity defense has become the most passionately debated issue in criminal law, a debate marked by slogans and stereotypes. Mr. Goldstein offers a reasoned study of that debate and the current rules behind the law, as well as a careful examination of what might be expected from any new rules now proposed.

Download or read book By Reason of Insanity written by Randy Singer and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Christy Award finalist! After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O'Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential source—a detective working on the case. Catherine's intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she's arrested and charged with murder. As she begins to doubt her own innocence, Catherine turns to Las Vegas lawyer Quinn Newberg, a high-priced specialist in the insanity defense. Quinn believes in justice, Vegas-style. But he doesn't believe in the supernatural, or that Catherine's dreams are anything other than the result of a fractured personality disorder. Who can understand the human mind? Quinn knows that insanity cases are unpredictable, but nothing had prepared him for this! To win, or even survive, Quinn will need more than his famed legal maneuvering and biting skepticism. On this case, he needs a miracle.

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Download or read book The Mad the Bad and the Innocent written by Barbara Kirwin and published by HarperTorch. This book was released on 1998-09-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the heart of a killer The Mad Over the past twenty years, renowned forensic psychologist Barbara Kirwin has confronted a terrifying lineup of murderers, rapists, paranoids, and psychopaths--including notorious serial killer Joel Rifkin--to distinguish the truly mad from the bad trying to cop an insanity plea. The Bad Here, in chilling detail, she recalls her most grisly cases and offers riveting psychological portraits of other infamous killers, including "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, Colin Ferguson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, Susan Smith, and John W. Hinckley, Jr. The Innocent Moving from prison holding cells to sensational courtroom trails, Kirwin tells the truth about the insanity defense and its abuse by criminal lawyers conjuring up outrageous defenses--from adopted child syndrome to postpartum psychosis to sleepwalking. As she pries open the criminal mind, Kirwin takes us on a riveting journey into the heart of darkness, where madness and evil thrive.

Download or read book Rationality Of Irrationality The Schizophrenia Criminal Insanity And Neurosis written by Yacov Rofe and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the validity of all traditional theories of psychopathology, particularly with regard to schizophrenia. It demonstrates that the accepted belief that schizophrenia is a brain disease is wrong, a result of the inability of traditional theories to provide an alternative explanation for the correlation between schizophrenia and genetic/neurological impairments.Psych-Bizarreness Theory (PBT), presented in this book, demonstrates that bizarre/mad behaviors, schizophrenia, criminal insanity and neuroses are rational coping mechanisms to extreme levels of emotional distress, usually depression, which are chosen by the individual to improve his quality of life. PBT integrates the scientific contributions of all traditional theories into one theoretical framework. It also integrates all therapeutic interventions of mad behaviors into one theoretical umbrella and suggests a new, humanistic therapeutic approach.

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Download or read book Simester and Sullivan s Criminal Law written by A P Simester and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 1187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth edition of the leading textbook on criminal law by Professors Simester, Spencer, Sullivan and Virgo. Simester and Sullivan is an outstanding account of modern English criminal law, combining detailed exposition and analysis of the law with a careful exploration of its theoretical underpinnings. Primarily, it is written for undergraduate students of criminal law and it has become the set text in many leading universities. Additionally, the book is used as an important point of reference in academic writing and postgraduate research in England and abroad. Simester and Sullivan has been cited by appellate courts throughout the world. There have been a large number of important appellate decisions since the last edition of this work. This new case law, among other things, provides helpful guidance for the interpretation of offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007 and of the defence of loss of control provided by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. There have been significant developments in the laws relating to rape, self-defence and defence of property, and duress. Special mention should be made of the continuing stream of appellate cases regarding the nature and scope of secondary liability in the crimes of others.

Download or read book A Dark Night in Aurora written by Dr. William H. Reid and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found. On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly waiting at his car. He was detained without resistance. Unlike the Columbine, Newtown, San Bernadino, and Las Vegas shootings, James Holmes is unique among mass shooters in his willingness to be taken into custody alive. In the court case that followed, only Dr. William H. Reid, a distinguished forensic psychiatrist, would be allowed to record interviews with the defendant. Reid would read Holmes’ diary, investigate his phone calls and text messages, interview his family and acquaintances, speak to his victims, and review tens of thousands of pages of evidence and court testimony in an attempt to understand how a happy, seemingly normal child could become a killer. A Dark Night in Aurora uses the twenty-three hours of unredacted interview transcripts never seen by the public and Reid’s research to bring the reader inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology and how a lovely boy named Jimmy became a killer.

Download or read book The Far Whistle written by Warren Beck and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third collection of Warren Beck's short stories gathers up thirteen stories written since the war and again affirms the author's position as one of America's masters of the medium. Several of these stories deal with the poignant relationships between father and child -- the theme so well handled in the title story of The First Fish and Other Stories. Others treat the bittersweet experiences of young people emerging into maturity -- the theme of his first story to win wide acclaim, "The Blue Sash." But there are new themes in these stories too, displaying a broadening vision and more detailed study of character. "The Edge of Doom," for instance, is an absorbing study of a tragic interweaving of personalities and a keen commentary on art and life. Whatever his outward subject, Warren Beck brings to bear on it a lucid, sensitive style and an observation rich with compassion and humor. As the U.S. Quarterly Book List said, "He writes about ordinary middle class people doing ordinary things. His particular ability is to reveal the complexity and significance of such people in such action."