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Are symptoms assessed differently for schizophrenia and other psychoses in legal insanity evaluations of violent crimes?

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2023
Background Forensic evaluations of legal insanity include the experts’ assessment of symptoms present at the mental state examination (MSE) and the mental state at the time of offense (MSO). Delusions and hallucinations are most important.
Pia Jorde Løvgren   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Insanity on the Dissolution of Marriage Contract [PDF]

open access: yesفقه و حقوق خانواده, 2009
The renowned Jurists as well as the contemporary law makers consider insanity as a factor of the dissolution of marriage contract. They have their say on account of documents and sayings as a reason for the flaw and hypocracy in marriage contract ...
Saeed Ebrahimi, Mohsen Esmaeili
doaj   +1 more source

L’aliénation mentale devant les juges égyptiens pendant la période de tutelle britannique

open access: yesClio@Themis, 2022
Law and medicine have known a specific development, in Egypt, at the beginning of the 19th century. The different Egyptian courts dealt with cases that implied a psychiatric dimension in both penal and civil proceedings. Through the journal al-Muhâmâ, it
Ayang Utriza Yakin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
In insanity cases, although the defendant's eventual punishment is legally irrelevant to the jury's decision, it may be psychologically relevant. In this three-part mixed-methods study, Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 83) read a fictional murder
Susan Yamamoto, Evelyn M. Maeder
doaj   +1 more source

A Narrow Definition of Insanity Opined by Medical Experts in the Oliver Smith Will Case in 1847

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2011
Physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of insane people (alienists) emerged in the early 19th century and offered their expertise for the courts to consider in judgments of mental competence.
Jeremia Heinik, Kenneth I. Shulman
doaj   +1 more source

La locura desde los archivos. Chile, 1850-1930

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2015
This study presents some introductory aspects of psychiatric historiography, particularly in its encounter with the judicial system as an analytical space in which to explore insanity. It focuses on the possibilities of the civil justice, specifically on
María José Correa Gómez
doaj   +1 more source

Les nits incendiades. Alquímia i representació en la poesia de Palau i Fabre

open access: yesCatalonia, 2019
It is still necessary to ponder those things which, because of their very nature, seem impossible to understand. Josep Palau i Fabre vindicated a literature grafted with madness such as the alchemic tradition, in order to re-encounter a form of grandness
Sergi Álvarez Riosalido
doaj   +1 more source

The muffled voices of the insane child – tracing the small voices of early child and adolescent psychiatry

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2023
This article discusses historical, archival and theoretical material constructed about the children, who were labeld insane in Denmark, across the period of 1900-1930.
Trine Elisabeth Møbius Sørensen
doaj   +2 more sources

Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: “On the Inheritance of Manic‐Depressive Insanity”

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
wiley   +1 more source

Back Again to the Future: A New Era for Cerebroprotection

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Cerebroprotection is a fresh framework for designing neurological therapy that targets glia and vascular cells, in addition to neurons. In the future, successful cerebroprotection will involve targeting all elements of the neurovascular unit. Preclinical trials must include functional outcomes, as well as lesion morphometry.
Patrick Lyden
wiley   +1 more source

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