On The Fringes

Ep 3 - Mental Illness in the Justice System w/ Becky Nicholls MA


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In this episode we are joined by Becky Nicholls a Clinical Psychologist and friend of the show, who has a deep passion for changing the stigma around mental health in the justice system. She was so fascinated by the sexual preferences of Psychopaths, that she chose to write about it for her dissertation https://repository.cardiffmet.ac.uk/handle/10369/10004.
In this episode we discuss how people with mental illness are mis-characterised in the Justice system. And out of pure curiosity we take a tangent into the different types of psychopaths and how they think and function.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638237.2019.1608934 - Literature relating to Mental illness in the justice system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=kXMnc2Xjj-o&feature=emb_logo - An interview with Dr James Fallons (a self diagnosed psychopath) in which Dr Simon Baron Coen (Sacha Baron Cohen's cousin weirdly enough) is sceptical of Fallon's self diagnoses as well as the results of his study.
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