The Criminal Mind
- Author Dr Duncan Harding
- Narrator Duncan Harding
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 9 hours and 43 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Biography and non-fiction prose, Criminal or forensic psychology, Forensic medicine, Forensic science, Medical diagnosis, Medical profession, Medicine: general issues, Memoirs, Pathology, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology: death and dying, True crime.
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What to expect
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An edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding
- A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground
- A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife
- A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect
One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why?
What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers.
An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial.
Growing up in a broken, violent home, Harding became a doctor because he wanted to be good and kind. It led him on a journey that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of his compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.
But he’s never turned away nor given up hope. Mesmerising, insightful and redemptive, The Criminal Mind is his unforgettable story.
'Engrossing' DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, author of Unnatural Causes
‘A riveting memoir … interweaves Harding’s often very moving life story with his memories of working as a forensic psychiatrist … the book left me with a powerful respect for the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep patients, and the rest of us, safe’ - MAIL ON SUNDAY
©2024 Duncan Harding (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
Superbly written, as tense as a thriller, this is a book that will make you miss the bus so gripping are these cases
Harding’s riveting memoir is often very moving … it left me with a powerful respect for all the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep us safe
A combination of medical coming-of-age tale and true crime that is particularly gripping … Harding writes with empathy and insight … each patient a mystery to unpick
Insightful, informative and sometimes shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book
A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year
Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey that reveals, based on the author’s own clinical experience, why some of us lead lives of love and some of hate. Riveting
A fantastic read … a very accessible window into the darker recesses of human behaviour … hard to put down
Not just another forensic psychiatrist’s casebook, but a moving account of how Duncan Harding became forensic psychiatrist
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