Abstract This article explores the response of postcolonial state to question widow immolation – sati. It demonstrates that conversation on practice sati at high point Hindu law reform in 1950s reflected simultaneous pressures new democracy establish rule while also accommodating renewed reverence for tradition and religious custom an independent nation state. Distinct from colonial treated wom...

In 1850 a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the state of Lunatic Asylums and other Institutions for the custody and treatment of the Insane in Ireland, and into the present state of the Law respecting Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. The Report of the Commissioners has now been made public, and it is unfavourable, not only as regards the condition an...

the Insane. It probably amounts to at least 8 per 1,000 of the total population of the country. It is also realized that defectives are a serious economic burden and, in many cases, a no less serious social menace; consequently, that their ascertainment, correct diagnosis, and proper administrative care, have become matters which the Nation can no longer afford to neglect. At the present day th...

This valuable work is a perfect encyclopaedia of every matter connected with the arrangements of hospitals for the insane. It is thoroughly practical and comprehensive, and the author has minutely detailed every requisite for the health and comfort of the iumates of an asylum. We quite agree with the writer, that the insane are more effectually and more economically treated in a well-regulated ...

Rosenhan's "On Being Sane in Insane Places" is pseudoscience presented as science. Just as his pseudopatients were diagnosed at discharge as "schizophrenia in remission," so a careful examination of this study's methods, results, and conclusion leads to a diagnosis of "logic in remission." Rosenhan's study proves that pseudopatients are not detected by psychiatrists as having simulated signs of...

copy, complete or interpret drawings. (Both innovations reflect a new appeciation for visual communication, but their use cannot leave intact the innocence of the compulsion to draw or construct: the art of the insane may be headed for extinction.) The field of "discovery" was left clear for expressionistically-oriented psychoanalysts, and artists. MacGregor makes a good case for psychotic art'...

”So then, King Agrippa . . . I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen—that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles”. At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defence. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane”. “I am not insane, most e...

A delusion is usually decribed as an erroneous belief of the falseness of which its possessor cannot be persuaded of by reasoning nor by the evidence of his own senses, and which is contrary to the general belief of persons of his own race, age, standing and training. A person who believes that he can raise men from the dead or one who states that he is a canary or another who believes that he ...