The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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Cheryl Paradis

Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career.--Introduction.

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Alex Fedde Kalverboer

The focus in this study is on relationships between neurological findings and free-field behavior in preschool children. The study was triggered by the problem of learning and behavior disorders in children, which are supposed to be related to a non-optimal condition of the nervous system and which are described in the literature under headings such as "minimal brain dysfunction (M. B. D.)" or "special learning disorders." There is much confusion and controversy as to the exact kinds of neurobehavioral relationships and their etiology. The study addresses the answer to this question: What are the relationships between neurological findings and "free-field" behavior, directly observed in variously structured environments, in a group of preschool aged children with a variety of minor neurological dysfunctions but without serious neurological handicaps and not selected because of behavioral problems? Additionally, direct observation and quantitative analyses of free-field behavior has not been used previously in relation to the M.B.D. problem nor on such a large scale in other human studies, but is promising as it can be applied in a variety of clinical and developmental problems.

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Brian King

Lustmord - A compilation of essays, short stories, memoirs, confessions, letters, manifestoes, poetry, drawings, photographs and other works created by serial killers, mass murderers, cannibals, necrophiles, sexual sadists, psychopaths and assassins. These compelling documents are now available for the first time in one volume - an aesthetic testimony to the emotion and logic of a murderer's mind, a mind filled with terror and hatred, absurdity and horror, pathos and iniquity.

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Rocco J. Gennaro

This interdisciplinary work contains the most sustained attempt at developing and defending one of the few genuine theories of consciousness. Following the lead of David Rosenthal, the author argues for the so-called 'higher-order thought theory of consciousness'. This theory holds that what makes a mental state conscious is the presence of a suitable higher-order thought directed at the mental state. In addition, the somewhat controversial claim that "consciousness entails self-consciousness" is vigorously defended. The approach is mostly 'analytic' in style and draws on important recent work in cognitive science, perception, artificial intelligence, neuropsychology and psychopathology. However, the book also makes extensive use of numerous Kantian insights in arguing for its main theses and, in turn, sheds historical light on Kant's theory of mind. A detailed analysis of the relationships between (self-)consciousness, behavior, memory, intentionality, and de se attitudes are examples of the central topics to be found in this work.