| Titre : | Five brains of alienated criminals. Neurological investigations of early twentieth century criminal anthropology (2022) |
| Auteurs : | LICATA M ; LARENTIS O ; TESI C ; FUSCO R ; TONINA E ; CILIBERTI R |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | ENCEPHALE (5 vol 48, 2022) |
| Article en page(s) : | 504-509 |
| Note générale : | Fig./23 ref. bibliogr. |
| Descripteurs |
[SANTEPSY] ANTHROPOLOGIE [SANTEPSY] CAS CLINIQUE [SANTEPSY] CRIMINOLOGIE [SANTEPSY] ENCEPHALE [SANTEPSY] ENQUETE RETROSPECTIVE [SANTEPSY] HISTOIRE DE LA PSYCHIATRIE [SANTEPSY] NEUROLOGIE [SANTEPSY] NEUROPSYCHIATRIE [SANTEPSY] PATHOLOGIE PSYCHIATRIQUE [SANTEPSY] PSYCHIATRIE MEDICO LEGALE |
| Résumé : | Introduction : For the followers of criminal anthropology, during the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the association 'anatomical anomaly – psyche anomaly' represented an immediate diagnostic tool to identify mental illness and consequently the tendency to become a criminal. In this article, we analyse a clinical report published* in 1900 in which the author, Dr. Saporito, described five brains of alienated criminals from the Aversa asylum. Methods : Through the observations of Dr. Saporito's autoptic evaluations and the literature of the times, the beliefs of the positivist science of that time are highlighted. Results : The identification of multiple physical anomalies focused on the brains, with particular attention to the alteration at the level of some fissures, could lead to identify psychiatric disorders and criminal tendency. Conclusions : From the observations presented here, the author reiterated that several anomalies recorded in these five brains reproduced atavistic characteristics, which disappeared in the ontogenetic and phylogenetic evolution of the human brain. [résumé d'auteur] *'The article was published in 1900 in the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Criminal Anthropology and Related Sciences (Rivista mensile di psichiatria forense antropologia criminale e science affini) with the title 'On five brains of alienated criminals', morphological observations(pp. 1–13)'[résumé d'auteur] |
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