INSANITY VERSUS MENTAL DISEASES

A Text-Book of Insanity and Other Mental Disorders

Opinions concerning the insanity plea and criminality among mental patients.

Although numerous discourses relating to the insanity plea are to be found in the psychiatric and legal literature, there are but few empirical studies that address even the fundamental issue of its incidence and success rate.! Similarly, to the authors' knowledge, there is but one study concerned with the attitudes of individuals toward the insanity plea; that study was a survey made of lawyer...

Mental Diseases

elucidate or emphasize. A special feature in the book is chapters II-V, where normal psychological functions are dealt with, as far as possible on a neurological basis, and their disorders considered. In these chapters the author seems to be an ardent materialist, a whole-hearted member of the ranks of the " monists." His concluding remarks in the summary at the end of chapter V are worthy of n...

Mental Diseases

If there be one branch of medicine which does not lend itself, after the mode of the late Pelissier, to " potting," it is that of mental diseases. Should, as in the present case, the object be to give the medical student and general practitioner such a sufficient knowledge of the subject as the many other claims on their time for study allows, the plan preferably to be pursued is that of afford...

Insanity