Sex, Death, and Haloperidol. How the Criminal's Brain Works

Mikhail Bazhmin is a second-generation physician, psychiatrist, and candidate of medical sciences. He was born and raised in Samara, where he graduated from Samara State Medical University with a degree in "general medicine." He worked at a regional psychiatric hospital in a closed women's ward and taught students at the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at SSMU. Since 2012, he has lived in Israel, where after passing all exams, he completed a full residency program in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the largest forensic psychiatry center in the country, Shaar Menashe. In recent years, he has been leading a department specializing in comorbid pathology (when one patient has two or more diseases from the same area - for example, schizophrenia and addiction) and simultaneously building a home hospitalization system (a system of providing medical services at home while maintaining the same intensity of treatment and staff as in the hospital) throughout the country. He is fond of Eastern art, collects Japanese antique weapons, and holds several black belts in various martial arts.
He teaches students and novice doctors at Shaar Menashe. Why are serial killers deemed sane? Where is the line between madness and norm? And, in general, what is norm? Mikhail Bazhmin, forensic psychiatrist, will illustrate, with cases from practice that are sometimes tragic and sometimes amusing, how intricately the human brain works, how little we have moved away from our ancestors, and what a thin line separates each of us from the dark side of consciousness.