Pre-order this edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding<\/b><\/p>\n
“Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey ? Riveting” <\/b>JOHN HUMPHRYS<\/p>\n
‘Incisive, informative and occasionally shocking, The Criminal Mind<\/i> is an engrossing book’ <\/b>DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes<\/i><\/p>\n
‘A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year’ <\/b>M.J. ARLIDGE, bestselling author of Eeny Meeny<\/i><\/p>\n
– A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground<\/p>\n
– A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife<\/p>\n
– A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect<\/p>\n
One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why<\/i>?<\/p>\n
What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers.<\/p>\n
An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial.<\/p>\n
Growing up in a broken, violent home, Harding became a doctor because he wanted to be good and kind. It led him on a journey that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of his compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.<\/p>\n
But he’s never turned away nor given up hope. Mesmerising, insightful and redemptive, The Criminal Mind<\/i> is his unforgettable story.<\/p>\n
‘Not just another forensic psychiatrist’s casebook<\/b>. . . . a moving account of how Harding became a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist, caring for mentally disordered child and adolescent offenders’ <\/b>KEITH RIX professor of medical jurisprudence and forensic psychiatrist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground. A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife. A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect. One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers. An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[911],"product_tag":[2444,6051,15444,6589,28391,2580,259,3196,2506,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-106619","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-health","6":"product_tag-autobiography-science-technology-medicine","7":"product_tag-criminal-or-forensic-psychology","8":"product_tag-forensic-medicine","9":"product_tag-forensic-science","10":"product_tag-medical-diagnosis","11":"product_tag-medical-profession","12":"product_tag-memoirs","13":"product_tag-pathology","14":"product_tag-sociology-death-dying","15":"product_tag-true-crime","16":"pa_book_author-harding-duncan","17":"pa_cover-paperback","18":"pa_dewey-614-15092-edition23","19":"pa_imprint-penguin-books","20":"pa_language-english","21":"pa_pages-8562","22":"pa_publisher-penguin-books","23":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","25":"first","26":"instock","27":"taxable","28":"shipping-taxable","29":"purchasable","30":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n