Author Description

Evidence, Leading To Hypotheses Of Links Between Crimes, Or As Likely, Offering 'red Herrings' (false Leads) To The Core Crime. Looking For Motives May Give Way To Identifying Opportunities For The Perpetrator To Act. New Evidence, New Leads, And New Truths Then Provoke One Or More Twists - Surprising Turns Of Events - Followed By The Concluding Solution(s) To The Case. This Book Presents A Kind Of Mystery Story That Metaphorically Follows Many Of These Genre Conventions. The Opening Chapters Collect The Bald Evidence Of The 'crime' - In This Case The Puzzle Of Wrongful/criminal Conduct In Psychiatric Diagnostic Categories. The Essential Evidence For The 'crime' Is Assembled, Laid Out, And Examined. The Middle Chapters Explore Those Dustbins Of Locale And History To Find Alternative Ways Of Formulating The Motives - The 'whys' Of My Research Question, Trying To Find The Motives That Fit The Evidence. Like In Crime Fiction, The Evidence Fits Numerous Hypotheses And Often The Case Turns On Identifying The Opportunity For The Alleged Offender To Act. Likewise, The History Of Madness And Morality In My Early-middle Chapters Identify Multiple Motives As Well As Opportunities To Conflate Madness And Morality. The Late-middle Chapters Recast The Evidence In New Lights, Leading To Insights Into New 'crimes' - These Being, In My Case, New Public-policy And Professional Issues Concerning Vice And Mental Disorders. In The Process Of Researching And Writing This Book, I Had My Initial Guiding Preconceptions. Ultimately, These Preconceptions Were Turned Upside Down. This Turnabout In My Preconceptions Lead Me To Conclusions Which Were Far From What I Had Originally Imagined - The 'twist' Of The Mystery Story-- Provided By Publisher.