Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers - Hardcover

Lewis, Dorothy Otnow; Wood, Ira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0449002772 ISBN 13: 9780449002773

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 1998

Synopsis

A nationally known psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City recounts her experiences probing the minds of the murderously insane, including encounters with teenage murderers, schizophrenics, and famous killers such as Ted Bundy and Mark David Chapman. Tour.

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From the Back Cover:

A psychiatrist and internationally renowned 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 shares her groundbreaking discoveries - and the chilling encounters that led to them.

From juvenile courts to the psychiatric wards of a New York hospital, from maximum security prisons to the corridors of death row, Lewis searches to understand the origins of violence.

Controversial and compelling right up to its final interview with an executioner - a state-sanctioned killer - Guilty by Reason of Insanity will forever change the way you think about crime and punishment.

About the Author:

Dorothy Otnow Lewis, M.D. grew up in New York City. She is a graduate of the Ethical Culture Schools, Radcliffe College, and Yale University School of Medicine. She is a psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, a professor at New York University School of Medicine, and a clinical professor at the Yale University Child Study Center. Her studies on violence have been cited in decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is married to Dr. Melvin Lewis, a child psychiatrist and professor at Yale. The Lewises have two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0449002772
• ISBN 13: 9780449002773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 301