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Neither Bad Nor Mad Author: Deidre N. Greig

ISBN: 9781843100065 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 288 Published: 28 February 2002 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 Description: 'The author is keenly aware of the profound societal, ethical and philosophical issues that arise in and around the 'no man's land' occupied by personality disordered individuals...this book, like the 'diagnosis' of its essential character, has no national boundaries. The subject-matter is representative of a clinical situation that could arise and has arisen in many jurisdictions. The 'bad or mad' conundrum confronts the very credibility of psychiatry and its knowledge base...the potential readership of this book has no established parameters and will appeal to many. This book is highly recommended.' -Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illness or criminality. In doing so, it interfered with the law's protection of civil rights and also with professional distinctions between a certifiable mental illness and the broader concept of mental disorder. The ensuing legal proc...

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