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New evidence or changing population? Reviewing the evidence of a link between mental illness and violence
Author(s) -
Paterson Brodie,
Claughan Peter,
McComish Sandy
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1606.2004.00307.x
Subject(s) - mental illness , skepticism , psychiatry , psychology , population , medicine , mental health , environmental health , philosophy , epistemology
There has been an apparent shift in majority opinion within psychiatry over the last 20 years on the nature of the relationship between mental illness and violence. Where once there was perhaps widespread scepticism , research , while sometimes producing conflicting results , appears ultimately to have led to the emergence of an almost universal consensus that there is a link. This paper will review the nature of the evidence for such a link between mental illness and violence and explore some of the newer suggestions about why mental illness may sometimes be related to violence