Reviews

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R. D. Mackay, Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, £35.00 (h/b), 252 pp. Patrick McGrath, Asylum, London: Viking, 1996, £16.00 (h/b), 249 pp. Daniel N. Robinson, Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: the Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, £19.95 (h/b), 299 pp. Brenda Love, Encyclopaedia of Unusual Sex Practices, London: Abacus, 1992, £12.99 (p/b), 247 pp. Children and Violence: Report of the Commission on Children and Violence Convened by the Gulbenkian Foundation, London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1995, £10.95 (p/b), 313 pp. Louis B. Schlesinger (ed.), Explorations in Criminal Psychopathology, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1996, no price given, 348 pp. John Cornwell, The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine and Murder on Trial, London: Viking, 1996, £18.00 (h/b), 321 pp. Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-century Representations, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, £14.95, viii +296 pp. Allan Young, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, £28 (h/b), 327 pp. Andrew Scull, Charlotte Mackenzie and Nicholas Hervey, Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, £23 (h/b), 363 pp. Anthony Maden, Caecilia J. A. Taylor, Deborah Brooke and John Gunn, Mental Disorder in Remand Prisoners, London: Home Office, 1996 (p/b), 101 pp. Available from: Home Office Research and Statistics Department, Room 278, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT Graham Towl and David Crighton, The Handbook of Psychology for Forensic Practitioners, London: Routledge, 1996, £45.00 (h/b), £14.99 (p/b), 227 pp.