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Remorse and Reparation

Edited by Murray Cox

Number 7 in the Forensic Focus series

Paperback: £22.99 / $38.95

1998, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-452-8, BIC 2: JMK MMF

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Hardback: £49.99 / $95.00

1998, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-451-1, BIC 2: JMK MMF

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Foreword, Jessica Kingsley. Remorse and Reparation: `To Double Business Bound' Dr Murray Cox. Section 1. Clinical Perspectives. 1. Reflections on Remorse in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Andrew S. Horne, Broadmoor Hospital. 2. The Aginbite of Inwit, or, The Varieties of Moral Experience Dr James Gilligan, Harvard University. 3. Necessary but not Sufficient: the Personal View of a Psychiatric Member of the Parole Board Dr David Tidmarsh, Parole Board. 4. Psychoanalytic Aspects of Remorse and Reparation Cleo van Velsen, Analyst. 5. A Defective Capacity to Feel Sorrow: Interferences to the Development of Remorse and Reparation Dr Leslie Sohn, The Maudsley Hospital. 6. Feelings of Guilt and the Attribution of Blame for Criminal Acts Dr Gisli Gudjonsson, Institute of Psychiatry. 7. Remorse for Being: Through the Lens of Learning Disability Professor Sheila Hollins, St George's Hospital Medical School. Section 2. Legal Perspectives. 1. Remorse and Rehabilitation John Harding, Inner London Probation Service. 2. Remorse and Reparation - a Judicial Perspective His Honour Henry Palmer. Section 3. Remorse and Reparation from Other Perspectives. 1. Remorse and Reparation: a Philosophical Analysis Dr Alan Thomas, King's College London. 2. The Most Dreadful Sentiment: a Sociological Commentary Baroness Cox and Dr Michael Borgeaud, University of North London. 3. Un-doing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California. 4. Representations of Remorse and Reparation in Classical Greece Dr Douglas Cairns, University of Leeds. 5. Cases of Conscience in the Universe of Shakespeare's Plays: `Abhorring of Himselfe is a Recovering of Himselfe' Professor John Wilks, Okayama University. 6. Kierkegaard and Remorse: Remorse as an Existentialist Concern Alice Theilgaard and Bjarne Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen. Bibliogaphy.

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