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Dangerous Minds
- Author
- Dr Taj Nathan
- Narrator
- Rich Keeble
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 24 June 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Critics Review
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'Exceptional'
The Times
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'An eye-opening journey into dangerous minds [that] explores what drives people to commit reprehensible acts . . . Thoughtful and engrossing'
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Dr Taj Nathan
- Narrator
- Rich Keeble
- Duration
- 9 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529392890
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Criminal or forensic psychology, True crime, Forensic science
Synopsis
A forensic psychiatrist uses case studies to explore what drives people to commit violence.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.(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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