The Criminal Mind

<b>WHAT MAKES A MURDERER? Unraveling the Dark Psychology Behind Britain’s Most Notorious Killers From Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr Duncan Harding</b><br><br><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025</b><br><br>''<b>Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey … Riveting</b>’ JOHN HUMPHRYS<br><br>''<b>Incisive, informative and occasionally shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book</b>’ DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, bestselling author of <i>Unnatural Causes</i><br><br>''<b>A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year</b>’ M.J. ARLIDGE, bestselling author of <i>Eeny Meeny</i><br><br>–<br><br><b>A young girl burns down the family home</b><br><b>A man doesn’t remember killing his wife</b><br><b>A teenager’s visions and voices lead to murder</b><br><br>One question binds these and many others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes?<br><br>Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers – to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation: their fitness to stand trial.<br><br>It is a career that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of human compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.<br><br><b>This then is a journey deep into the criminal mind . . .</b><br><br>–<br><br><b><u>PRAISE FOR <i>THE CRIMINAL MIND</i></u></b><br><br>''<b>Not just another forensic psychiatrist’s casebook. . . . a moving account of how Harding became a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist, caring for mentally disordered child and adolescent offenders</b>'' KEITH RIX professor of medical jurisprudence and forensic psychiatrist<br><br>‘<b>Superbly written, as tense as a thriller, this is a book that will make you miss the bus so gripping are these cases</b>’ Daily Mail<br><br>‘<b>Harding’s riveting memoir is often very moving … it left me with a powerful respect for all the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep us safe</b>’ MAIL ON SUNDAY<br><br>‘<b>A combination of medical coming-of-age tale and true crime that is particularly gripping … Harding writes with empathy and insight … each patient a mystery to unpick</b>’ IRISH INDEPENDENT<br><br>‘<b>A fantastic read … a very accessible window into the darker recesses of human behaviour … hard to put down</b>’ JUDGE DAVID WILLIAMS<br><br>‘<b>Not just another forensic psychiatrist’s casebook, but a moving account of how Duncan Harding became forensic psychiatrist</b>’ KEITH RIX, PROFESSOR IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY</p>