Habitual Violence : A Profile of 62 Men
GEORGE BACH-Y-RITA M.D.1, and
ARTHUR VENO 2
1 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Calif. 94122
2 Research Associate, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Calif. 94122
The authors studied a group of 62 habitually violent patient/inmates from a prison population for life history and clinical variables. An extraordinarily high incidence of self-destructive behavior and self-mutilation was found as well as a high incidence of childhood pathology suggestive of deprivation and neurological impairment in the sepatients. The population was also found to be heterogeneous, differing on several significant variables.
