Book description
A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence,
Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the
minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted
Bundy, Arthur Shawcross and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John
Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries -and the chilling
encounters that led to them. From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the
psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, from maximum
security prisons to the corridors of death row, Lewis and her colleague,
the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, search to understand the
origins of violence. Concluding with a chilling interview with an
executioner -a killer sanctioned by the state - Guilty by Reason of
Insanity is an utterly absorbing odyssey that will forever change the
way you think about crime, punishment and the law itself. Dorothy
Otnow Lewis, M. D., grew up in New York City. She is a graduate of the
Ethical Culture School, Radcliffe College, and Yale University School of
Medicine. She is a psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, a
professor at New York City University School of Medicine, and a clinical
professor at the Yale University Child Study Centre. Her studies on
violence have been cited in decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
States. She is married to Dr. Melvin Lewis, a child psychiatrist and
professor at Yale. The Lewis' have two children.
