Andrews Jonathan
School of Historical Studies & Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
Hist Psychiatry. 2010 Sep;21(83 Pt 3):243-60. doi: 10.1177/0957154X09349705.
This article surveys evolving and competing medico-legal concepts of pyromania and insane arson. Exploiting evidence from medical jurisprudence, medico-legal publications, medical lexicography and case histories, it seeks to explicate the key positions in contemporary professional debates concerning arson and mental derangement. A major focus is the application of the doctrines of moral and partial insanity, monomania, instinctive insanity and irresistible impulse to understandings of pyromania and insane arson. The limited extent to which mental defect provided a satisfactory diagnosis and exculpatory plea for morbid arson is also explored. Additionally, this article compares and contrasts contemporary debates about other special manias, especially kleptomania. Part 2 will be published in the next issue, History of Psychiatry 21 (4).
本文审视了纵火癖和精神错乱纵火不断演变且相互竞争的法医学概念。它利用法医学、法医学出版物、医学词典编纂和病史中的证据，试图阐明当代关于纵火与精神错乱的专业辩论中的关键立场。一个主要焦点是道德与部分精神错乱、单狂症、本能精神错乱和不可抗拒冲动等学说在理解纵火癖和精神错乱纵火方面的应用。本文还探讨了智力缺陷在多大程度上能为病态纵火提供令人满意的诊断和免责抗辩。此外，本文比较并对比了当代关于其他特殊癖好（尤其是盗窃癖）的辩论。第二部分将在下一期《精神病学史》21(4)中发表。
