Several libraries nationwide are restricting access to a controversial book that contains excerpts from a psychiatrist’s analysis of a male teenager who set a fatal fire.
The psychiatrist is suspected of leaking confidential reports about the teenager to a freelance writer.
The doctor, 49, examined the boy, 17, after he set a fire at his home in Nara Prefecture, killing his stepmother and two siblings in June 2006. The youth was sent to reformatory in October last year.
The book, “Boku wa Papa wo Korosukoto ni Kimeta” (I decided to kill my dad), by Atsuko Kusanagi, was published in May by Kodansha Ltd. It contains quotations from confidential police documents.
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