How Much Violence Is Due To Mental Illness?
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In this short episode of The Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast, I interview Dr. Cummings, a forensic psychiatrist, on the topic of the correlation of mental illness and violent crime, and what causes violent crime. I start out with reviewing some studies and then subsequently interview Dr. Cummings, a leading psychiatrist at one of the largest forensic psychiatric hospitals in the United States.
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| 0:34.8 | All right, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | Today, I'm going to have Dr. Cummings on, but before I do, I'm going to have a little |
| 0:40.8 | bit of an introduction to this topic of violence and mental health. |
| 0:45.7 | I think this is an important topic to discuss because so much in the media and in movies, |
| 0:53.0 | there's this depiction of the person with mental health issues having a major psychiatric |
| 0:58.4 | diagnosis being very violent. |
| 1:01.7 | And so I recently posted it on TikTok and this one out and got something like 27,000 |
| 1:10.2 | hearts and 143,000 views on this topic is saying that only 5% of violent acts are done |
| 1:23.1 | by someone with a major mental health issue without the comorbidity of drug or alcohol |
| 1:29.8 | use. |
| 1:30.8 | And that 5% people are really upset about this. |
| 1:36.5 | People are saying like, oh, where's your data, where's your citations? |
| 1:42.7 | And so I thought I would have Dr. Cummings on talk about this a little bit, but I thought |
| 1:45.8 | I would also go through some studies talking about this because it's a major stigma increasing |
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