Psychiatry by Burns Tom;

Author:Burns, Tom; [Burns, Tom;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192807274
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Published: 2006-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

While each of these individual incidents is a tragedy for all involved, they really do not amount to an epidemic. In England, for example, homicide by the mentally ill has remained constant at about 160 a year for the last 40 years (while homicide by the non mentally ill has increased from just over 300 a year in 1980 to over 800 in 2000). Most of these ‘mental illness’ homicides occur within the family or are by individuals with personality disorders often complicated by drug and alcohol misuse (not what most of us typically think of as ‘mental illness’). However the fear of random assault by a psychotic individual, ‘prematurely discharged from a mental hospital’, exerts a remarkably powerful hold on public opinion. In the UK you are more likely to be killed by a speeding police car than by a mentally ill stranger.

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