Trials of Passion (57 page)

p. 324
sane man:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
pp. 109–16 passim

p. 326
helpless child:
Cited in Langford,
The Murder of Stanford White,
p. 147

p. 326
a fool:
Nesbit,
The Story of My Life
(London: John Long, 1914), frontispiece

p. 327
self-protection:
Langford,
The Murder of Stanford White,
p. 172

p. 327
self-possessed:
Nesbit,
The Story of My Life,
p. 193

p. 330
question: New York Times,
15 March 1907

p. 330
1904:
Pinta,
Paranoia of the Millionaire,
p. 17

p. 331
in the wind: New York Times,
13 February 1907

p. 331
brought to bear:
William James, ‘Are We Automata?'. Available at
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/automata.htm

p. 333
is wrong:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
pp. 170–5

p. 334
dragon: New York Times,
22 March 1907

p. 334
community:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
p. 182

p. 335
every way:
Langford,
The Murder of Stanford White,
p. 202

p. 336
human laws:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
pp. 191–2

p. 336
allowed him:
Quoted in ibid., p. 192

p. 340
sob sisters:
Jean Marie Lutes, ‘Sob Sisterhood Revisited',
American Literary History,
vol. 15, no. 3 (fall 2003), pp. 504-32, 504

p. 340
honor:
Quoted from the
New York Evening Journal
in the
Pittsburgh Gazette,
25 January 1907

p. 341
did then:
Helena Kennedy,
Eve Was Framed
(London: Vintage, 2005), pp. 96ff

p. 342
heard it:
See Jean Marie Lutes,
Front-Page Girls,
for an in-depth account of the women reporters' points of view on the case, pp. 60ff

p. 344
Thaw trial:
Cited by Pinta,
Paranoia of the Millionaire,
p. 24

p. 345
the question:
Britton D. Evans, ‘Court Testimony of Alienists',
American Journal of Insanity,
vol. 66, New York State Lunatic Asylum, July 1910 (at Harvard University, digitized 3 April 2007), pp. 83-109, 92

p. 346
humanity:
Ibid., pp. 90–1

p. 350
affections:
See Estela V. Welldon, passim, for the mother–child relations that can feed into criminality

p. 353
prisoner: New York Times
, 21 January 1908

p. 354
insanity: New York Times
, 29 January 1908; also Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
p. 235, and Pinta,
Paranoia of the Millionaire,
p. 26

p. 355
delusional suicide:
Emil Kraepelin,
Manic-Depressive Insanity,
trans. R. Mary Barclay, (Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1921), pp. 19-24 passim, 220–9, 267, 275. Available at
http://www.archive.org/details/manicdepressiveiOOkraeuoft

p. 357
motives as these:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
pp. 243–4

p. 359
mountains:
New York State Archive

p. 360
creatures:
Langford,
The Murder of Stanford White,
p. 240

p. 362
may be:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
p. 249

p. 362
of the law: Outlook Magazine,
cited in Langford,
The Murder of Stanford White,
p. 58

p. 362
prevent it:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
p. 254

p. 362
kill her: New York Times,
21 June 1912

p. 363
confident: New York Times,
19 June 1912; also 30 June 1909

p. 364
violence: New York Times,
30 July 1909

p. 365
community: New York Times,
19 June 1912

p. 367
his client: New York Times,
20 June 1912

p. 367
habeas corpus:
Cited by Pinta,
Paranoia of the Millionaire,
p. 49

p. 368
unawares: New York Times,
18 August 1913

p. 368
very insane:
Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
p. 275

p. 370
is insane: New York Times,
10 July 1915

p. 373
I lived:
Pinta,
Paranoia of the Millionaire,
p. 56

p. 373
bill collectors:
Uruburu,
American Eve,
p. 269

p. 375
displeasure:
Quoted by Mackenzie,
The Trial of Harry Thaw,
p. 299

p. 375
any sense:
See William A. White,
Outlines of Psychiatry
(New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1915), chapter 1 and passim; and White,
Insanity and the Criminal Law
(New York: Macmillan, 1923), chapter 9

p. 376
psychological level:
Bernard Glueck and William A. White,
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
(Boston: Little Brown, 1916), p. 1

p. 377
social liability:
Grob,
Inner World of American Psychiatry, 1890–1940,
pp. 284 and below 285

p. 378
electric chair:
In an interesting note on psychiatric history, Dr Jones, who had examined Capote's cold-blooded murderers and was an expert witness at their trial, consulted with the veteran psychiatrist Dr Satten. The latter concurred with his assessment of the two murderers – paranoid, with low self-esteem and an inability to contain impulses. He co-authored a 1960 article with the very same Karl Menninger who sent White the psychiatrists' Credo. By then, Menninger was the doyen of the premier clinic and training centre that bore his name in Topeka, Kansas. In ‘Murder without Apparent Motive',
American Journal of Psychiatry
(1960), pp. 48–53, the authors write: ‘In attempting to assess the criminal responsibility of murderers, the law tries to divide them (as it does all offenders) into two groups, the “sane” and the “insane”. The “sane” murderer is thought of as acting upon rational motives that can be understood, though condemned, and the “insane” one as being driven by irrational senseless motives. When rational motives are conspicuous (for example, when a man kills for personal gain) or when the irrational motives are accompanied by delusions or hallucinations (for example, a paranoid patient who kills his fancied persecutor), the situation presents little problem to the psychiatrist. But murderers who seem rational, coherent, and controlled, and yet whose homicidal acts have a bizarre, apparently senseless quality, pose a difficult problem'

CODA

p. 379
angel of law:
Rober Musil,
The Man without Qualities,
trans. Burton Pike (London: Pan Macmillan, 1995), p. 263

p. 382
sentence:
See David Wexler and Bruce Winick,
Law in a Therapeutic Key: Developments in Therapeutic Jurisprudence
(Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1996); Dawn Moore, ‘Translating Justice and Therapy',
British Journal of Criminology
, 47 (2007), pp. 42–60

p. 384
a year:
HBVA Honour Based Violence Awareness Network at HBV- awareness.com provides data on honour killings worldwide

p. 385
so hated: Banaz
–
A Love Story,
directed by Deeyah, Fuuse Films

p. 386
peril begins:
http://www.adoctorm.com/docs/tarasoff.htm
, accessed 23 April 2013

p. 387
1933:
See my
Mad, Bad and Sad
(London: Virago, 2008), pp. 305–8

p. 387
Ireland:
Brendan D. Kelly, ‘Erotomania: Epidemiology and Management',
Therapy in Practice,
vol. 19, no. 8 (2005), pp. 657,668,660

p. 389
conduct:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/john__hinckley/9.html
, accessed 23 March 2013

p. 390
brains:
‘How to Spot a Murderer's Brain',
Observer
, 12 May 2013. See also Adrian Raine,
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
(London: Allen Lane, 2013)

p. 390
hard job:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/johnjhinckley/ll.html
, accessed 23 March 2013

p. 392
campaign:
Sophie Goodchild, ‘Stalking Victim Backs First Advice Service',
Evening Standard
, 9 May 2013

p. 392
estimated:
http://www.victimsofcrime.org/library/crime-information- and-statistics/stalking#ftnl
, accessed 14 October 2013

p. 394
reconciliation:
Paul E. Mullen and Michele Pathé, ‘Stalking',
Crime and Justice
, vol. 29 (2002), pp. 273–318; and Mullen, Pathé and Rosemary Purcell, ‘The Management of Stalkers',
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
, 7 (2001), pp. 335-42

p.394
seeking:
S. Strand and T. E. McEwan, ‘Violence among Female Stalkers', in
Psychological Medicine
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711001498; J. Reid Meloy, Kris Mohandie and Mila Green, ‘The Female Stalker', first published online 23 February 2011, DOI: 10.1002/bsl.976

p. 395
victims:
Quoted in Do the New Stalking Laws Show We Are Taking This Crime Seriously?',
Guardian
blog post by Homa Khaleeli, 26 November 2012

p. 395
social group:
Estela V. Welldon,
Playing with Dynamite
(London: Karnac Books, 2011) pp. 171–190

p. 396
Richard III:
Freud, ‘Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho- Analytic Work', in
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
, vol. xiv (1916, 1925), pp. 311-14

p. 396
gratifications:
I am grateful to the Australian psychiatrist Edwin Harari for his lucid exposition of this material in a lecture on personality disorders

p. 396
executioner:
Steven Pinker,
Better Angels of Our Nature
(London: Allen Lane, 2011)p. 83

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