Destruction as a constructive choice

Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 153-177

  Winter, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Clinical Psychology Department   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-006-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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