The Criminal Mind

Dr Duncan Harding is a forensic psychiatrist who examines defendants' mental states and motivations. He has worked with psychopaths and faced the darkest corners of his own troubled past. His memoir, The Criminal Mind, is a riveting and insightful look at his life and work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Discover the gripping journey into the darkest depths of the human mind with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Duncan Harding. Engrossing and moving, this book has received high praise from readers of Unnatural Causes, All That Remains, Do No Harm, War Doctor, and The Jigsaw Man. Dr. Harding is a likeable young girl who has burned her family home to the ground, a man with no memory of the night he killed his wife, and a teenager whose visions and voices have had a murderous effect. One question binds these and other cases from the casebook of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr. Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers. An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant's mental state and motivation and their fitness to stand trial. Growing up in a broken, violent home, Harding became a doctor because he wanted to be good and kind. It led him on a journey that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of his compassion, and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past. But he has never turned away nor given up hope. Mesmerizing, insightful, and redemptive, The Criminal Mind is his unforgettable story. "A riveting memoir ... interweaves Harding's often very moving life story with his memories of working as a forensic psychiatrist ... the book left me with a powerful respect for the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep patients, and the rest of us, safe," writes the Mail on Sunday.

Weight: 620g
Dimension: 242 x 162 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241446836