Wild Beasts and Idle Humours The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present

"[This] work is a welcome addition to the literature and a valuable book for readers with an interest in either law or psychology. An intellectual history of the interplay of psychology and law within the narrow context of insanity as a legal defense in criminal or civil actions, this book carefully examines the views of human nature prevalent in classical Greece and Rome, the early and later Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the era of modern science. It then traces the influences of these ideas on the development of the concepts and structures of the law...Both lawyer and lay reader can read this book with benefit."Robinson, Daniel N. is the author of 'Wild Beasts and Idle Humours The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present', published 1998 under ISBN 9780674952904 and ISBN 0674952901.