Although dementia praecox or schizophrenia has been considered a unique disease entity
for the past century, its definitions and boundaries have continued to vary over this period. At …

Objective: Stigma plays a major role in the persistent suffering, disability and economic loss
associated with mental illnesses. There is an urgent need to find effective strategies to …

We test whether significant differences in mental illness exist in a matched sample of lone-
and group-based terrorists. We then test whether there are distinct behavioral differences …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

This book provides the first empirical analysis of lone-actor terrorist behaviour. Based upon
a unique dataset of 111 lone actors that catalogues the life span of the individual's …

Suicidal behavior takes over a million lives worldwide every year. Non-fatal suicidal
behavior is estimated to be 25 to 50 times more common (1). Finding ways to identify those …

Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the
social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the …

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Research Summary A popular explanation for mass shootings is that the assailant “must
have been mentally ill.” A popular policy solution is exceptionalist—enter more gun …

Intimate partner violence against women is a global and persistent public health issue. An
extreme manifestation of this problem is intimate partner femicide (IPF), the killing of a …