title: Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Probes the Minds of Killers
author:  Dorothy Otnow Lewis 
description: "We met no Jimmy Cagneys or Robert Mitchums among the inmates in the prisons we visited. We found ourselves, rather, in the company of a pathetic crew of intellectually limited, dysfunctional, half-mad, occasionally explosive losers. Long before these men wound up on death row, their similarly limited, primitive, impulsive parents had raised them in the only fashion they knew.... These brutish parents had set the stage on which our condemned subjects now found themselves playing out the final act. It was a drama generations in the making."
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  RECONSTRUCTION
  
  
  A woman in love spoke beautiful words to the man who had almost blown up the
  theatre. Then an ambulance carriage arrived and orderlies led away the madman,
  carefully supporting him from both sides. Soft-hearted Vasilisa Prokofievna,
  forgetting the terror she had suffered, threw a coat over the shoulders of the
  wilted assistant director and also made the sign of the cross over the sick
  man.
  
  People are compassionate with the insane, thought Fandorin, and that is
  probably right. But at the same time, the type of psychological disorder known
  as manic obsession gives rise to the most dangerous criminals in the world.
  They typically possess steely determination, absolute fearlessness and
  brilliant inventiveness. The greatest threat is represented by manic obsession
  on a grand scale. Those who are not possessed by the petty demon of lust, but
  by the demon of global transformation. And if they cannot manage to transform
  the world in accordance with their ideal, they are wi