The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind
10 best books like The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind (Cheryl Paradis): The Anatomy of Evil, The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain, The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI, Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster, Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry, Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination, Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh, Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
| Author | Michael H. Stone |
| ISBN | 1591027268 |
The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would not hesitate to label them "evil." In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone—host of Discovery...
| Author | James Blair |
| ISBN | 0631233369 |
Psychopaths continue to be demonised by the media and estimates suggest that a disturbing percentage of the population has psychopathic tendencies. This timely and controversial new book summarises what we already know about psychopathy and antisocial behavior and puts forward a new case for its...
| Author | Colin Evans |
| ISBN | 0425210073 |
Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime-and into the future of forensic science.
His name was Bernard Spilsbury-and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age. Starting out as a young, charismatic...
| Author | Paul R. Linde |
| ISBN | 0071407995 |
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained." --Journal of the American Medical Association.
An...
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
| Author | Harold Schechter |
| ISBN | 0743483359 |
Harold Schechter is quite a writer. His research is awe-inspiring and the way he can turn a tale told by an outside narrator while cuing the reader as to the times of the era that he's writing about is truly a gift. He spends very little time on the setting up the scene and this makes the read more enjoyable...
Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry
| Author | Armando R. Favazza |
| ISBN | 0801853001 |
This work analyzes the complex issues surrounding self-mutilation, drawing on case studies from clinical psychiatry and cultural anthropology to show that the phenomenon is deeply embedded culturally, and far more common than is often thought. Although body modification and blood rituals are...
| Author | Ronald K. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0452269539 |
A beautiful pianist hears her music drowned out by the voice of God. A young woman calmly watches the gang rape of her girlfriend and herself. A shy schoolboy turns to his invisible best friend to wreak bloody vengeance. In Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel shows how even the sober brain can create the...
| Author | D.A. Stern |
| ISBN | 1578602041 |
In September of 2004, Dr. Charles Marsh arrived at the Kriegmoor Psychiatric Institute in Bayfield, Wisconsin, anxious to take on his new duties, eager to distance himself from the scandal that had forced him to resign his previous post. Among the patients assigned to Marsh at this time was a young woman...
| Author | Paul Raeburn |
| ISBN | 0767914384 |
In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.
Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted...
| Author | Edwin S. Shneidman |
| ISBN | 0195172736 |
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page...
| Author | Dominick Bosco |
| ISBN | 1559721138 |
This is a novel that NEEDED to be written, and Dominick Bosco has done an incredibly fine job of it.
He has had a compassionate and lengthy sabbatical studying health care for the mentally ill at first hand, and presents the whole panoramic sweep of it.
From multiple points of view - in...
| Author | Dorothy Otnow Lewis |
| ISBN | 0804118876 |
A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she...
| Author | Carol Anne Davis |
| ISBN | 0749005726 |
Why does a young woman lure teenagers into her car then participate in their horrific rape and torture? What makes a nurse lethally inject the healthy babies in her care? Women, statistically, aren`t a violent breed ... but the female of the species can be just as deadly as the male. From the mass poisoner...
| Author | Martha Stout |
| ISBN | 0142000558 |
"When we say a friend was 'like a different person,' we may be more right than we know."
-The Boston Globe
Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife?
How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Kottler |
| ISBN | 0787978043 |
"A wife pretends to hang herself in the basement so she can time how long it will be before her husband comes to rescue her. . . .a woman whose dead aunt was made into a mummy so the family could better grieve her passing and on occasion dine with her at family gatherings . . . a man wants his nose cut off to escape...
| Author | Richard A. Heckler |
| ISBN | 0345400356 |
In this extraordinary book, psychologist Richard A. Heckler tells the whole story of the descent, the attempt, and the return to life. He gives new depth to our understanding of the descent—the withdrawal from relationships, the facade of normalcy, and the suicidal trance. For the first time, we...
Undying Love: The True Story Of A Passion That Defied Death
| Author | Ben Harrison |
| ISBN | 0312978022 |
The power of obsessive love seems to know no bounds-- yet one man took his unrequited passion to a grotesque new level that will shock even the most hardened readers. Undying Love is that story-- read on if you dare...
Carl von Cosel was a German immigrant who worked as a technician in a Key West...
| Author | Kurt Snyder |
| ISBN | 0195311221 |
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars...
The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On
| Author | Dennis DiClaudio |
| ISBN | 0760366306 |
Giving neurotics everywhere something to worry about, The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On profiles more than 40 of the most outrageous and yet eerily familiar psychological disorders—a fascinating array of obsessions, compulsions, phobias, fixations,...
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
| Author | Charles Barber |
| ISBN | 0375423990 |
Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other...
| Author | Christopher Berry-Dee |
| ISBN | 1844541266 |
Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. He has penetrated their minds and gained their trust to produce one stomach-churningly compulsive selection of tales already, and his unique collection of audiotape and videotape interviews has been collected into another disturbing...
The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds
| Author | Katherine Ramsland |
| ISBN | 0425232263 |
The bestselling author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. examines the real-life cases behind the hit television series Criminal Minds
Week after week, the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside the psyches of the fictional serial killers tracked by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis...
Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
| Author | Mary Beth Pfeiffer |
| ISBN | 0786717459 |
Crazy in America shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently punished again for behavior that is...
