Professor Jeremy Coid MB ChB, MD (Lond), FRCPsych. MPhil. Dip. Criminol.
Chair of Forensic Psychiatry, Director of Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, Queen Mary College University of London
Jeremy Coid, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry debates with Dr Raj Persaud, Consultant Psychiatrist, in these clips of video, how psychiatrists can come to a conclusion about the mental state of mass killers like Anders Breivik. The interview with Professor Coid is in advance of a free public debate to be held under the auspices of the long-running and prestigious Maudsley Debates.
Eminent psychiatrists, psychologists, experts and academics debate Breivik's mental state; what this case reveals about the link between fanaticism and psychological disturbance.
Much turned on whether the judges in the Court in Norwar agreed with the first two psychiatrists who examined Breivik and diagnosed him as suffering from 'paranoid schizophrenia with persistent delusions', or the second pair of clinicians who concluded, in marked contrast to the first diagnosis, that Breivik is a case of personality disorder, characterised by extreme political attitudes, and not delusions.
Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Dr Jeremy Coid discusses with Dr Raj Persaud some of the stated beliefs of Anders Breivik - is this evidence for mental illness - such as psychosis or schizophrenia? Or is this someone who displays extremism as found commonly at the far ends of the political spectrum, an ideological position, rather than a psychiatric disorder?
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INSIDE THE MIND OF ANDERS BREIVIK - ARTICLE IN HUFFINGTON POST BY RAJ PERSAUD AND RAMON SPAAIJ - TO READ CLICK HERE:
...But the actions of alone individual may be driven by a very different set of motivational factors, as opposed to a protest group or terrorist cell.
Behavioural analysis of how antagonistic groups operate, and infiltrating them in order to gain intelligence so as to hamper their actions, is now at an advanced stage for intelligence and security services across the Western world. Yet how effective are they at understanding the psychology of the loner? Is it possible this is the last frontier of the battle against civil disruption and terrorism? Perhaps precisely because of the relative success of agencies against groups or cells, the action in the future could be moving to lone individuals, as posing maximum threat to social order.But the actions of alone individual may be driven by a very different set of motivational factors, as opposed to a protest group or terrorist cell.
Behavioural analysis of how antagonistic groups operate, and infiltrating them in order to gain intelligence so as to hamper their actions, is now at an advanced stage for intelligence and security services across the Western world. Yet how effective are they at understanding the psychology of the loner? Is it possible this is the last frontier of the battle against civil disruption and terrorism? Perhaps precisely because of the relative success of agencies against groups or cells, the action in the future could be moving to lone individuals, as posing maximum threat to social order....
Professor Jeremy Coid is a Forensic Psychiatrist who has acted as an expert witness in cases of mass murder - in this series of interviews with Dr Raj Persaud he explains how Forensic Psychiatrists work, make a diagnosis and some of the difficult issues that they wrestle with.
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Professor Jeremy Coid, a reknowned Forensic Psychiatrist discusses the psychiatric assessment of mass murder with Dr Raj Persaud
Eminent psychiatrists, psychologists, experts and academics debate Anders Breivik's mental state; what this case reveals about the link between fanaticism and psychological disturbance.
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