Criminal Mind

<b>WHAT MAKES A MURDERER? Unraveling the Dark Psychology Behind Britain's Most Notorious Killers From Forensic Psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding</b> <p/><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025</b> <p/>'<b>Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey ... Riveting</b>' JOHN HUMPHRYS <p/>'<b>Incisive informative and occasionally shocking The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book</b>' DR RICHARD SHEPHERD bestselling author of <i>Unnatural Causes</i> <p/>'<b>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 <i>Eeny Meeny</i> <p/>- <p/><b>A young girl burns down the family home</b><br><b>A man doesn't remember killing his wife</b><br><b>A teenager's visions and voices lead to murder</b> <p/>One question binds these and many others from the casebook of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? <p/>Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers - to establish a defendant's mental state and motivation: their fitness to stand trial. <p/>It is a career that has brought him face to face with psychopaths taken him to the limits of human compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past. <p/><b>This then is a journey deep into the criminal mind . . .</b> <p/>- <p/><b>PRAISE FOR <i>THE CRIMINAL MIND</i></b> <p/>'<b>Not just another forensic psychiatrist's casebook. . . . 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/>'<b>Superbly written as tense as a thriller this is a book that will make you miss the bus so gripping are these cases</b>' Daily Mail <p/>'<b>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</b>' MAIL ON SUNDAY <p/>'<b>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</b>' IRISH INDEPENDENT <p/>'<b>A fantastic read ... a very accessible window into the darker recesses of human behaviour ... hard to put down</b>' JUDGE DAVID WILLIAMS <p/>'<b>Not just another forensic psychiatrist's casebook but a moving account of how Duncan Harding became forensic psychiatrist</b>' KEITH RIX PROFESSOR IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY</p>