Open AccessPsychopathic Disorder – Concept or Chimera
Author(s) -
Herschel Prins
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of mental health and capacity law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2056-3922
DOI - 10.19164/ijmhcl.v0i8.332
Subject(s) - emotive , legislation , chimera (genetics) , law , government (linguistics) , psychoanalysis , political science , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , biology , genetics , gene
This paper, which is divided into five parts, has been prompted by the continuing interest in the complex and emotive topic of psychopathic disorder1 and the possibility of a government Bill aimed at revising the current mental health legislation being introduced in 2003. The unclear nature of the condition and the controversies surrounding it are well encapsulated in the two quotations that head this paper. One or two other literary allusions will also be called in aid later.