irresponsible for his crime. Upon this the lawyers and the doctors have once more joined issue, though there appear to be signs that, with the exception of the rigid, high and dry variety, the lawyers are somewhat more disposed than formerly to recognise that psychology may, after all, be a real aid to the administration of justice. The fact that the MedicoLegal Society is steadily growing in n...

To empirically investigate the usefulness and validity of clinical presentation and recent history variables in the detection of malingered psychiatric disorder, 30 criminal defendants involved in forensic evaluations, who had a documented history of psychiatric hospitalization preceding their arrest on the instant offense (low risk of malingering group) and 30 defendants who complained of psyc...

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 ...

In one of the first papers about the complexity of puzzles, Robertson and Munro [12] proved that a generalized form of the thenpopular Instant Insanity puzzle is NP-complete. Here we study several variations of this puzzle, exploring how the complexity depends on the piece shapes and the allowable orientations of those shapes. Prepared in honor of Ian Munro’s 66th birthday.

Abstract In this chapter, we examine the final stage in life cycle of pellagrous patients—discharge or death. The nineteenth-century emphasis on physicality insanity lent itself to treatment insanity, which responded well better diet and living conditions asylums offered. Approximately two-thirds insane patients were discharged, either ‘cured’ ‘improved’ (at least according their patient files)...

Abstract Here (and in Chapter 9 ), we shift our gaze to the asylum experience of pellagra, focusing on Venice’s two insane asylums: San Servolo (for men) and Clemente women). The chapters are organised around ‘life cycle’ male female sufferers at from local referral admission, through treatment, ending either with release back into community or death. Being photographed upon admission became a ...