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The Criminal Mind
- Author
- Dr Duncan Harding
- Narrator
- Duncan Harding
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 5 September 2024
- Run Time
- 9 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
WHAT MAKES A MURDERER? Unraveling the Dark Psychology Behind Britain’s Most Notorious Killers From Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr Duncan Harding
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025
A young girl burns down the family home
A man doesn’t remember killing his wife
A teenager’s visions and voices lead to murder
One question binds these and many others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes?
Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers – to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation: their fitness to stand trial.
It is a career that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of human compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.
This then is a journey deep into the criminal mind . . .
'Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey … Riveting’ JOHN HUMPHRYS
'Incisive, informative and occasionally shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book’ DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
'A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year’ M.J. ARLIDGE, bestselling author of Eeny Meeny
©2024 Duncan Harding (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Superbly written, as tense as a thriller, this is a book that will make you miss the bus so gripping are these cases
Daily Mail
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Harding’s riveting memoir is often very moving … it left me with a powerful respect for all the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep us safe
MAIL ON SUNDAY
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A combination of medical coming-of-age tale and true crime that is particularly gripping … Harding writes with empathy and insight … each patient a mystery to unpick
IRISH INDEPENDENT
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Insightful, informative and sometimes shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book
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A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year
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Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey that reveals, based on the author’s own clinical experience, why some of us lead lives of love and some of hate. Riveting
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A fantastic read … a very accessible window into the darker recesses of human behaviour … hard to put down
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Not just another forensic psychiatrist’s casebook, but a moving account of how Duncan Harding became forensic psychiatrist
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Details
- Author
- Dr Duncan Harding
- Narrator
- Duncan Harding
- Duration
- 9 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781405967570
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Criminal or forensic psychology, Forensic medicine, Medical diagnosis, Forensic science, True crime, Medical profession, Sociology: death and dying, Pathology
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.WHAT MAKES A MURDERER? Unraveling the Dark Psychology Behind Britain’s Most Notorious Killers From Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr Duncan HardingSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025A young girl burns down the family homeA man doesn’t remember killing his wifeA teenager’s visions and voices lead to murderOne question binds these and many others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes?Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers – to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation: their fitness to stand trial.It is a career that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of human compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.This then is a journey deep into the criminal mind . . .'Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey … Riveting’ JOHN HUMPHRYS'Incisive, informative and occasionally shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book’ DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes'A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year’ M.J. ARLIDGE, bestselling author of Eeny Meeny©2024 Duncan Harding (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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