A troubled homicide cop chases a killer with an artistic sensibility Marketing executive Peter Barrows spends his nights scouring Greenwich Village for wannabe models. He lures them back to his studio with promises of stardom, getting their hopes up just before he snaps their necks. Then his work begins, arranging their corpses to be photographed, giving them the grace and poise they never possessed in life. Peter Barrows is an artist—and death is his medium. A hard-bitten cop with a secret in his past, Ben Tolliver is obsessed with the Greenwich Village murders. After the third girl is found, he throws himself wholeheartedly into the search for the killer with the camera. Barrows believes that an artist must be willing to sacrifice anything for his work—and as Tolliver is about to find, bringing a crazed killer to justice demands nothing less.
GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY is an utterly absorbing odyssey that will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself.
A demented young man who believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, Thomas Bishop escapes from a mental institution and launches a murderous reign of horror until a brilliant young reporter, Adam Kenton, vows to get Bishop at any cost
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Michel 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 ...
The life of David Michael Krueger, who, on his first day pass from his Brockville, Ontario, psychiatric hospital, brutally murdered another patient.
15) Slater and Roth may be correct in their observations about the limitations of Freud's experience, but their statement is frankly inaccurate, for nowhere in Clinical Psychiatry is there reference to the work of Klein, Segal and other ...
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity: One Man's Recovery
In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights.
A psychiatrist recognized internationally as an expert on the roots of violence traces her experiences in New York City's psychiatric wards and on death row as she plumbed the minds of America's most notorious serial killers. Reprint.
chattering about the Kentucky State Police coming as fast as they could get here and there being bones—a pile of bones. Leslie stuck her head out of the patient's room. Her usually calm face was twisted in complete annoyance.