The defense laid the foundation for CPT Payne's
mental diseaseIn his classic, Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin--the founder of modern psychiatry--wrote: "The subject of the following course of lectures will be the Science of Psychiatry, which, as its name implies, is that of the treatment of
mental disease. It is true that, in the strictest terms, we cannot speak of the mind as becoming diseased."
Rather, it had to play by the current rules of the game and try to show that the agent was substantially incapacitated by
mental disease or defect-an argument made marginally plausible by her history of abuse.
Treatment facility to 8,452 patients suffering from
mental disease was also provided and 1,846 addicts were rehabilitated at psychologist clinic besides 8,309 delivery cases of women.
Chiero not guilty by reason of mental illness, if it was shown he suffered from a
mental disease or defect at the time of the stabbing that precluded him from appreciating the wrongfulness of his actions or conforming his behavior to the requirements of the law.
David Wright's
Mental Disease in Victorian England may be a portent of things to come.
With these principles in mind, the researchers have conducted a series of studies on patients in psychotherapy, They reported the results of their preliminary studies in the May 15, 1992 BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY and in the October 1992 JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND
MENTAL DISEASE. Their most recent study, which also includes information on the behavior of a psychiatrist's heart rate during therapy sessions, will appear in an upcoming issue of the JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND
MENTAL DISEASE.
In 1954, at the height of postwar psychoanalytic ascendence, Judge David Bazelon handed down what was known as the Durham decision in the District of Columbia-a decision Menninger called "more revolutionary in its total effect than the Supreme Court decision regarding segregation." Bazelon's assertion-"Our traditions also require that, where such [criminal] acts stem from and are the product of
mental disease or defect as these terms are used herein, moral blame shall not attach and hence there will not be criminal responsibility"-was a completely logical extension of Freudian thinking about criminal behavior.
Often it is thought by the parents that their child is going through any
mental disease. Instead, they need to take them in confidence so that their kids can share their mind and what they are going through.
"The costs of social neglect have unique relevance for psychiatric patients, the natural history of psychiatric illness and the profound co-morbidities associated with
mental disease," she said.
New research by scientists at Trinity College Dublin also claims boozing makes young men prone to
mental disease.