EPILEPTIC INSANITY

Epileptic psychosis and insanity: case study and review.

This brief clinical report focuses on a case in which we were ordered by the Wayne County Circuit Court to complete a forensic evaluation of a 26year-old man facing criminal charges of Felonious Assault and Criminal Sexual Conduct. The patient believed that he had committed the offenses but that his behavior was substantially influenced by a recently diagnosed seizure disorder. After a complete...

Insanity

Insanity plea: predicting not guilty by reason of insanity adjudications.

Using 35 variables and discriminant analysis procedures, it was found that, of 133 male defendants entering the insanity plea in Colorado, 87 percent were classified correctly into the disposition groups "adjudicated insane" and "convicted." Most positively related to an insanity adjudication were a psychiatric evaluation of insanity and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Negatively related to the i...

Crime and Insanity

Images of Insanity

An examination of the way the cinema has dealt with mental illness and the introspective fascination with which it has mirrored the spirit of experimentation and fragmentation of the last decade.