By Jan Volavka. 397 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1995. $54. ISBN 0-88048-543-4.
Volavka's introduction to violence began at the age of 10 ina Nazi prison: "I would not recommend such experience to futureresearchers into violence, but it certainly focussed my mindon the problem." Perhaps for that reason, he makes short workof Nazi "theoreticians" and their Soviet and American counterparts,who would trace propensities for violence to the shape of aperson's skull or the color of his or her skin. Since 1980 Volavkahas written articles and book chapters on such diverse aspectsof the issue as its neurobiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations,and pharmacotherapy. In this, his first . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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