Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

by Robert K. Ressler

Let me say at once that schizophrenia is completely misunderstood by the lay public. Schizophrenia is the most prevalent of all the psychoses, and paranoid schizophrenics are the most common of the schizophrenics. Most paranoid schizophrenics are not violent, however; in fact, the vast majority are harmless. The percentage of harmless people among schizophrenics may well be lower than it is among the normal population. No matter, though, for the crimes that are committed by paranoid schizophrenics are so gross that when brought to light, they bring censure down on all of the mentally ill. Herbert