“Perchance to dream”. Personality modifications and criminal liability : a nineteenth-century debate between psychiatry and law

At the end of the nineteenth century, psychiatry ‘discovered’ some new pathologies such as split personality. These pathologies put into question the traditional reassuring image of human beings as capable of fully controlling his/her behaviour. The aim of this article is to cast new light on how th...

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Auteur principal: Marchetti, Paolo
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2016
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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