chapter 1 Understanding Sexual Murder: Problems and Approaches -- chapter 2 Forensic Assessment: Evaluation of the Sexual Murder -- chapter 3 The Place of Sexual Murder in the Classification of Crime -- chapter 4 Catathymia and Catathymic Crisis: Contributions of Hans W.Maier and Fredric Wertham -- chapter 5 Acute Catathymic Homicides -- chapter 6 Chronic Catathymic Homicides -- chapter 7 Compulsive Homicides in Historical Context -- chapter 8 Planned Compulsive Homicides -- chapter 9 Unplanned Compulsive Homicides -- chapter 10 Prediction and Disposition.