Evolution and neuroscience –a theory -Buss
•https://qz.com/1348203/a-neuroscientist-who-studies-rage-says-were-all-capable-of-doing-something-terrible/
•A neuroscientist who studies rage says we’re all capable of doing something terrible
•By Olivia Goldhill Science reporter August 4, 2018
•David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas-Austin, surveyed 5,000 people for his book, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to K
found that 91% of men and 84% of women had thought about killing someone, often with very specific hypothetical victims and methods in mind.
•“It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact,” says Fields. “Look at the amount of crime committed in rage, not a conniving crime but a rage-induced aggressive responses. They ar
gave no reason to believe previously that they had aggressive tendencies.”
What motivates murder? Note UN classifies according to three categories -homicide related to interpersonal conflict, homicide related to criminal activitiesand homic
sociopolitical agendas
•Psychological gratification -emotions and motivations such as rage, jealousy, revenge, sexual/power [libidinal] stimulus, culture [honour killings, femicide] material i
genocidal ideology, religion
•Mental illness accounts for low number [though defining what counts as ‘mental illness’ is both a medical/psychiatric judgement and borders ethics]
• -psychological/psychiatric explanations, psychoanalytic, ‘practical’
•Psychological –as list above; [sometimes psychology uses language of psychoanalysis, object relations* etc]
•Psychoanalytic –focus on the unconscious and unconscious ‘drives’ [originated with Sigmund Freud]
•*Object relations is a variation of psychoanalytic theory that diverges from Sigmund Freud's belief that humans are motivated by sexual and aggressive drives, sugge
that humans are primarily motivated by the need for contact with others—the need to form relationships
Personality Disorders and Criminal Law: An International Perspective (2009) Landy F. Sparr, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 37:168-81
•‘It has been argued in a variety of jurisdictions and national legal systems that exculpatory mental disorders must be serious and personality disorders should not qual
• -debate between medical and legal understandings –DSM-5 –‘disorder’ not ‘disease’
•See also Personality disorders at the interface of psychiatry and the law (2013) Sally C Johnson, Eric B Elbogen Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2013 Jun; 15(2): 203–211
•Relative functionality in society?
•Philosophical ethics –‘labelling’ on the borders –benefit or harm?
, When considering the dynamic contextual and circumstantial aspects of IPM, there are some clear patterns. Jealousy, possessiveness, and a woman’s attempts to leave
relationship, particularly one plagued by the man’s violence, are significant features of IPM.
•Evidence highlights men’s proprietary thinking and fact of separation for IPM
•Move from coercive and violent controlling behaviour to IPM
In French clinical psychiatry -passage a l'acte -acute dissociative episode.
•In Lacanian psychoanalysis –passage a l’acte –move from Symbolic to Real
•‘Unlike ‘acting-out’, which makes a call to the Other, the passage a l'actefunctions at the level of jouissance, of an unmediated enjoyment that is addressed to no one
In 1933 the brutal murder of a bourgeois woman and her daughter by their maids, the Papinsisters -became a cause celebre in France. Lacan wrote this essay about the
he did not have the opportunity of interviewing them) for the surrealist journal Minotaure.
•Lacan’s account of the murders by the Papinsisters has several different points of interest, particularly for forensic psychiatrists. The specifically psychoanalytical int
made by Lacan will be examined briefly in the discussion. Lacan represents a new conception of the relation between psychiatry, criminology and penal justice.
•What is certain is that the patterns of psychosis are, if not identical in both sisters, at least very closely related. In the course of the debates, one has heard the astonish
that it would be impossible for two people both to have been affected by the same madness, with the same signs and symptoms at the same time. This statement is com
wrong. The deliresa deux are among the first forms of psychosis to have been recognized
•Folie a deux
Filicide is term used where child is murdered by parent –this may include neonaticide, infanticide depending on age of child
•I. Altruistic filicide can be divided into two subgroups
•https://qz.com/1348203/a-neuroscientist-who-studies-rage-says-were-all-capable-of-doing-something-terrible/
•A neuroscientist who studies rage says we’re all capable of doing something terrible
•By Olivia Goldhill Science reporter August 4, 2018
•David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas-Austin, surveyed 5,000 people for his book, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to K
found that 91% of men and 84% of women had thought about killing someone, often with very specific hypothetical victims and methods in mind.
•“It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact,” says Fields. “Look at the amount of crime committed in rage, not a conniving crime but a rage-induced aggressive responses. They ar
gave no reason to believe previously that they had aggressive tendencies.”
What motivates murder? Note UN classifies according to three categories -homicide related to interpersonal conflict, homicide related to criminal activitiesand homic
sociopolitical agendas
•Psychological gratification -emotions and motivations such as rage, jealousy, revenge, sexual/power [libidinal] stimulus, culture [honour killings, femicide] material i
genocidal ideology, religion
•Mental illness accounts for low number [though defining what counts as ‘mental illness’ is both a medical/psychiatric judgement and borders ethics]
• -psychological/psychiatric explanations, psychoanalytic, ‘practical’
•Psychological –as list above; [sometimes psychology uses language of psychoanalysis, object relations* etc]
•Psychoanalytic –focus on the unconscious and unconscious ‘drives’ [originated with Sigmund Freud]
•*Object relations is a variation of psychoanalytic theory that diverges from Sigmund Freud's belief that humans are motivated by sexual and aggressive drives, sugge
that humans are primarily motivated by the need for contact with others—the need to form relationships
Personality Disorders and Criminal Law: An International Perspective (2009) Landy F. Sparr, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 37:168-81
•‘It has been argued in a variety of jurisdictions and national legal systems that exculpatory mental disorders must be serious and personality disorders should not qual
• -debate between medical and legal understandings –DSM-5 –‘disorder’ not ‘disease’
•See also Personality disorders at the interface of psychiatry and the law (2013) Sally C Johnson, Eric B Elbogen Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2013 Jun; 15(2): 203–211
•Relative functionality in society?
•Philosophical ethics –‘labelling’ on the borders –benefit or harm?
, When considering the dynamic contextual and circumstantial aspects of IPM, there are some clear patterns. Jealousy, possessiveness, and a woman’s attempts to leave
relationship, particularly one plagued by the man’s violence, are significant features of IPM.
•Evidence highlights men’s proprietary thinking and fact of separation for IPM
•Move from coercive and violent controlling behaviour to IPM
In French clinical psychiatry -passage a l'acte -acute dissociative episode.
•In Lacanian psychoanalysis –passage a l’acte –move from Symbolic to Real
•‘Unlike ‘acting-out’, which makes a call to the Other, the passage a l'actefunctions at the level of jouissance, of an unmediated enjoyment that is addressed to no one
In 1933 the brutal murder of a bourgeois woman and her daughter by their maids, the Papinsisters -became a cause celebre in France. Lacan wrote this essay about the
he did not have the opportunity of interviewing them) for the surrealist journal Minotaure.
•Lacan’s account of the murders by the Papinsisters has several different points of interest, particularly for forensic psychiatrists. The specifically psychoanalytical int
made by Lacan will be examined briefly in the discussion. Lacan represents a new conception of the relation between psychiatry, criminology and penal justice.
•What is certain is that the patterns of psychosis are, if not identical in both sisters, at least very closely related. In the course of the debates, one has heard the astonish
that it would be impossible for two people both to have been affected by the same madness, with the same signs and symptoms at the same time. This statement is com
wrong. The deliresa deux are among the first forms of psychosis to have been recognized
•Folie a deux
Filicide is term used where child is murdered by parent –this may include neonaticide, infanticide depending on age of child
•I. Altruistic filicide can be divided into two subgroups
