'Exceptional . . . This thoughtful and engrossing book is as much about
law as it is about minds' THE TIMES
What drives someone to commit murder?
What makes some people lash out on those that they love?
Can we predict whether a child will grow into a violent adult, and what
can we do to prevent it?
These are just some of the questions that forensic psychiatrist Dr Taj
Nathan interrogates every day in his work with violent offenders.
Stories about violent or deviant behaviour are the subject of
sensational headlines or inflated dramatic portrayals, but infinitely
more complex and intriguing are the real people behind labels like
'psychopath', 'sex offender' or 'serial killer'.
Taking us from secure hospital wards to high-security prisons to
courtrooms, Dangerous Minds offers compelling and deeply compassionate
accounts of ten people whose lives have been shaped by violence. From
the impact of traumatic events in childhood to the evolutionary and
cultural influences on the emergence of the social mind, this book is an
insider's account of the origins of violence that asks its readers to
re-evaluate all that they think they know about the people society deems
most dangerous.
