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This book is widely known for its lucid account of the modern theory that sanity and insanity are not to be divided in a clear-cut way, but rather shade gradually into one another. Since this book deals mainly with the fundamental general principles of abnormal psychology, and these were already clearly formulated at the time it was first written in ...
Bernard Hart
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“Insanity Is the Price of Modern Civilization”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Asian Insane in Modern America [PDF]
Examining debates on the link between civilization and insanity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States, this essay engages the discourse of civilization to discuss the ways in which insanity among Asian immigrants, in particular
Ji-Hye SHIN
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A prominent body of literature indicates that insanity evaluations, which are intended to provide influential expert reports for judges to reach a decision “beyond any reasonable doubt,” suffer from a low inter-rater reliability.
Cristina Scarpazza+7 more
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Evolution of the Institution of Insanity in English Law
The article studies the genesis and evolution of the insanity institute in the English law using historical and legal as well as comparative and legal methodologies. Special focus is given to the psychological and legal aspects of insanity.
Malinovskiy A.A.
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This article presents a dual‐source novel nine‐level inverter (DSN2LI) featuring minimal devices. Utilizing eight switches, which include 2 bidirectional switching devices and 2 uneven dc links, the proposed DSN2LI generates nine levels. The DSN2LI employs the utilization of trinary geometric DC links.
Arun Vijayakumar+3 more
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Madness and civilization : a history of insanity in the age of reason
Introduction by David Cooper, Preface 1."Stultifera Navis" 2.The Great Confinement 3.The Insane 4.Passion and Delirium 5. Aspects of Madness 6.Doctors and Patients 7.The Great Fear 8.The New Division 9.The Birth of the Asylum, Conclusion ...
M. Foucault+2 more
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The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode [PDF]
Spirits and the associated messianic secret play a central role in the Gospel of Mark. In this article I present a Gothic reading of the gospel. In the beginning of Mark, Jesus is driven by a spirit into the wilderness.
Tom de Bruin
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This article provides a discussion about criminal insanity regulation in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, with a focus on the roles of legislators, judges and experts in the concretisation of the legal meaning of criminal insanity.
Linda Gröning+3 more
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Criminal Liability of People With Mental Disorders: Selected Issues
The issue of criminal liability in different legal systems and of the perpetrator’s sanity and mental disorders, has received much attention of researchers from different scientific disciplines. Of many important aspects relevant to this topic, the paper
Krzysztof Mikołajczuk
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Thanks to an article in The New York Times on the HIPAA Privacy Rule, I favor a new definition of “insanity.” I used to think of insanity as repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome.
David Hoffman
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