scholarly journals From Moral Insanity to Psychopathy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Lorettu ◽  
Alessandra M. Nivoli ◽  
Giancarlo Nivoli
Keyword(s):  
Moral Insanity

MORAL INSANITY

BMJ ◽  
1914 ◽  
Vol 2 (2792) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
C. T. Street
Keyword(s):  
Moral Insanity

Causes of crime

1901 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
P. I. Kovalevskiy
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Moral Insanity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Insignificant Difference ◽  
Causes Of Crime

Abstracts. Psychiatry.First, the author gives an understanding of what a crime and a criminal is. Further, he subdivides criminals into criminals from birth, who have deviations in the manifestation of feelings, feelings, thinking and will from birth; accustomed criminals, thanks to the wrong perverted upbringing, and criminals mentally sick. The author, dwelling exclusively on the scholarship about the inborn criminal, says that there is a very insignificant difference between the inborn criminal and the mentally ill, especially if we take moral insanity as the starting point.

On Moral Insanity and its Relation to Criminology

1894 ◽  
Vol 40 (171) ◽  
pp. 591-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor Benedikt
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Congenital Defects ◽  
Moral Standard ◽  
Moral Insanity ◽  
Great Advance

It is an undoubted fact that the diagnostic terms moral insanity and obsessions have been the cause of serious misconceptions in science and in criminal practice; and, further, that such misconceptions may paralyze justice and menace the moral standard and even the safety of society. It nevertheless marks a great advance in the progress of psychology to have recognized that many criminal and vicious acts result from congenital defects. These defects are sometimes accompanied by atypical anatomical forms of the body, and especially of the skull; but the value of these abnormalities is relative, not absolute.

Commentary on some Cases of Moral Insanity

1883 ◽  
Vol 28 (124) ◽  
pp. 531-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Manley
Keyword(s):  
Moral Insanity

scholarly journals A CASE OF MORAL INSANITY

1895 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Eliot Gorton
Keyword(s):  
Moral Insanity

scholarly journals Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
High Status ◽  
Moral Insanity ◽  
The Press ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Criminal Insanity

This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses of ‘monomania’ and ‘ manie sans délire’) to the development of psychiatry as a profession in the nineteenth century. The pioneers of psychiatric thought were motivated to explore such diagnoses because they promised public recognition in the high status surroundings of the criminal court. Some success was achieved in presenting a form of expertise that centred on the ability of the experts to detect quite subtle, ‘psychological’ forms of dangerous madness within the minds of offenders in France and more extensively in England. Significant backlash in the press against these new ideas pushed the profession away from such psychological exploration and back towards its medical roots that located criminal insanity simply within the organic constitution of its sufferers.

scholarly journals MORAL INSANITY AS A DEFENCE FOR CRIME

1885 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
&NA;
Keyword(s):  
Moral Insanity

Psychopathy and the Media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Insanity ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rational Understanding ◽  
The One ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
The 19Th Century

The term “psychopath” has come in popular use to be understood as a description of an individual who seems to have a clear and rational understanding of the world around them; they are not deluded or suffering from hallucinations and yet they seem to be able to act with great cruelty or with recklessness towards the safety of others and themselves. The medical and legal professions have been struggling for over 200 hundred years to reach agreement on whether there might be appropriate psychiatric diagnoses that might helpfully describe such individuals. Various terms such as moral insanity, monomania, psychopathy, and antisocial personality disorder have been used. The term “psychopath” is the one that has become most firmly fixed in the public imagination. The violence and harm that people with these kinds of problems might do can raise a great deal of public anxiety. This anxiety has often played out and been amplified in various forms of the media. This article traces some of the ways that various forms of popular media have been of crucial importance to shaping our understanding of “psychopathy” and the related diagnoses of moral insanity, monomania, and antisocial personality disorder. From the medical treatises and press reporting of notorious trails, and the explorations of dangerous forms of consciousness in the 19th century, to the way that the mass media, including films, have presented such problems, they have often had a key influence on the legal and medical formulations.

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