Psychiatry and the Concept of Evil
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 165 (3) , 297-300
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.165.3.297
Abstract
The Editor's initiative in seeking this Editorial was inspired no doubt by a number of recent cases and events in which the behaviour of those concerned seems to have defied rational explanation, and the power of ‘evil’ has been invoked in order to provide one. Perhaps the most compelling was that of the trial for murder of two ten-year-old boys for the murder of the infant James Bulger.Keywords
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