PEP | Article - Applied: Karl A. Menninger. 'Criminal Behaviour as a Form of Masked Self-Destructiveness.' Bulletin of Menninger Clinic, 1938, Vol. II, pp. 1–7.

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Abstract

This is a chapter from the author's book, Man Against Himself (Harcourt

Brace & Co., February, 1938). The criminals who get caught are the neurotic criminals, and those of them who have been studied psychoanalytically shew the same general formula as for other methods of self-destruction. Brief reference is made to a manuscript written to a criminal in Kansas, whose wish to be executed was strong enough to overcome a long existing law and sentiment against capital punishment.