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Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers

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Are They Mad or Bad or Both?

Rob Whitley professor psychiatry at McGill University in Canada says that many are too quick to attribute evil acts to mental illness rather than a complex web of causation which may include moral turpitude extreme ideology and social resentments we can't just explain these things away by saying oh you know they've had episodes of being mentally or whatever. "I would think I would encourage people to think about a kind of spectrum of mental difficulties," he says.

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