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The Environment as a Factor in the Aetiology of Criminal Paranoia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2018
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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.
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