Habitual Violence : A Profile of 62 Men

GEORGE BACH-Y-RITA and ARTHUR VENOAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.9.1015

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The authors studied a group of 62 habitually violent patient/inmates from a prison population for life history and clinical variables. An extraordinarily high incidence of self-destructive behavior and self-mutilation was found as well as a high incidence of childhood pathology suggestive of deprivation and neurological impairment in the sepatients. The population was also found to be heterogeneous, differing on several significant variables.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131 • Number 9 • September 1974

Pages: 1015 - 1017

PubMed: 4413618

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Published in print: September 1974

Published online: 12 February 2015

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GEORGE BACH-Y-RITA

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ARTHUR VENO

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Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Calif. 94122

Research Associate, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Calif. 94122

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Habitual Violence : A Profile of 62 Men

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