Table of Contents

Acknowledgements About the Author Preface: A Brief Historical Perspective: The Purpose of this Book; References, Further Reading and Food for Thought. 1. Origins and Orientation: Pioneers - and a Little Social History; Literary Allusions; Clinical Accounts; Therapeutic Communities; Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder; Neuro-physio-psychological and Other Approaches; Emerging Themes. 2. Mind Over Matter: A Selection of Hazards; What Is Personality?; Is it All in the Mind?; Some Further Developments in the Neurosciences; Family Constellation and Psychopathy; Concluding Comments. 3. Aspects of Management: Introduction; Close Encounters of an Uncomfortable Kind; An Australian Illustration; The Michael Stone Case and DSPD; What Followed; Concluding Comments. 4. Services and Procedures - Further Considered: Hospital Disposals; Secure Provision; Penal provisions; Supervision in the community; Other National Decision-making and Advisory Bodies. 5. Concluding Comments: Ill or Evil?; An Eye to the Future. Select Bibliography Chronological List of Key Statutes Glossary Index

About the Author

Professor Herschel Prins is highly respected in crime and mental health circles, having started out as a probation officer, worked for the Home Office, taught in universities and served on the Parole Board, Mental Health Review Tribunal, Mental Health Act Commission and as chair of various inquiries concerning psychopaths.

Reviews

'Reflects immense scholarship based on multidisciplinary perspectives, innate decency and an ability to convey complex behaviours in a readable style': John Harding CBE. 'A much needed text from one of the doyens in this field': Professor David Wilson.