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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 9

Articles | March 01, 1969

Psychiatric Study of Homicide

EMANUEL TANAY

Am J Psychiatry 1969;125:1252-1258.

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Clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Wayne State University

1968-69, American Psychiatric Association

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In evaluating 53 perpetrators of homicide, the author noted that a history of violent child-rearing, a severe superego, and an altered state of consciousness just prior to the act of homicide were marked characteristics of a majority of these individuals. He postulates three categories of homicide, based upon the immediate psychological state of the perpetrator: dissociative, psychotic, and ego-syntonic.

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