I desire to express my indebtedness to Messrs. Lea and Febiger, the J. B. Lippincott Co., and to the editors of the American Journal of Insanity, and the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, for their kind permission to reprint some of the material herein presented.

Before concluding this preface I desire to avail myself of this opportunity of expressing my sincere gratitude to Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, for his kind and very stimulating advice and encouragement which made these studies possible.

Government Hospital for the Insane,
January, 1916.

CONTENTS

  1. [Psychogenesis in the Psychoses of Prisoners] [1]
  2. [The Nature and Treatment of the Psychoses of Prisoners] [66]
  3. [The Forensic Phase of Litigious Paranoia] [132]
  4. [The Malingerer: a Clinical Study] [156]
  5. [The Analysis of a Case of Kleptomania] [239]
  6. [Index] [267]

STUDIES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY