Sanity and Insanity

Bringing some Sanity to the Insanity Defence: Reforming the Reverse Persuasive Burden of Proof

Abnormality, rationality, and sanity.

A growing body of studies suggests that neurological and mental abnormalities foster conformity to norms of rationality that are widely endorsed in economics and psychology, whereas normality stands in the way of rationality thus defined. Here, we outline the main findings of these studies, discuss their implications for experimental design, and consider how 'sane' some benchmarks of rationalit...

Sanity, Madness and the Family

, rs-Laing and Esterson describe an investigation of 11 patients suffering from ronic or acute and episodic schizophrenia, and of their families. Patients and p-ttiily members were interviewed both separately and together, in various combina-l0ns. The number of interviews per case varied considerably (between 13 and 44), jnd excerpts from them, as well as from the case records, are used to demo...

À votre sanity

Some years ago, I returned to England from Japan and found that I could not hear properly with my right ear. In a few days I had become completely deaf and could only converse with people in profile. I thought that this was a case of simple blockage due to my oriental genes for waxy ears, and I went across to the hospital to have my ear unblocked. The doctors took it much more seriously. They g...

Insanity