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The Environment as a Factor in the Aetiology of Criminal Paranoia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

K. O. Milner
K. O. Milner*
Affiliation:
Aston Hall Institution for Mental Defectives
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During several years of service at Broadmoor and in the prisons the writer saw a number of cases of criminal paranoia, and was impressed by the importance of external situations in the aetiology of the psychosis. The purpose of this short paper is to draw attention to the environmental stresses to which some of these patients have been subjected, and to try to show that criminal paranoia may sometimes be a reaction to an intolerable and inescapable predicament.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 398 , January 1949 , pp. 124 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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