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The Criminal Mind

Dr Duncan Harding

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MICHAEL JOSEPH
10 September 2024
The harrowing memoir of forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding

As a forensic psychiatrist, Duncan Harding has worked on some of the most harrowing cases one can imagine. spending time in the prison service, the Old Bailey and at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. His is a life spent working with serial killers, psychopaths, children who kill their family and friends. From notorious cases of gang violence and repeated domestic abuse, to a twelve year old boy who set fire to his classmate's face, Harding reckons daily with humankind's unspeakable capacity for sadistic violence.

Yet it is the humanity of these perpetrators that is the most shocking - how, with the wrong push at the wrong time, so many people are mere inches away from similar brutality. The people Harding has met and the stories they tell paint a chilling picture of modern Britain, and the paths our society leads people down towards the most horrific of acts.

In his attempts to make sense of these unimaginable crimes, Harding confronts agonizing questions - of when to call for justice, when to argue for mercy, when to break confidentiality, when to look closer, when to believe, when to forgive.
Broken Lives reveals the hard decisions we all must make when we come face to face with the unspeakable.
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Imprint:   MICHAEL JOSEPH
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   482g
ISBN:   9780241446843
ISBN 10:   0241446848
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Duncan Harding is a consultant forensic child psychiatrist, working with young people who commit serious crime. He is the clinical lead for child forensic community services across South London, and has a research interest in conduct disorder and criminal psychopathy.

Reviews for The Criminal Mind

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 * 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 * Insightful, informative and sometimes shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book -- DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, 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, AUTHOR OF EENY MEENY * - * 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 -- JOHN HUMPHRYS * - * A fantastic read … a very accessible window into the darker recesses of human behaviour … hard to put down -- JUDGE DAVID WILLIAMS * - * Not just another forensic psychiatrist’s casebook, but a moving account of how Duncan Harding became forensic psychiatrist -- KEITH RIX, PROFESSOR IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY * - *


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