Correspondence to Professor Richard Smith; [email protected] INTRODUCTION In 1948, my (RS) grandfather bought a car; a Morris Minor. It was slow, cramped and unreliable. Yet, as his needs changed over the years, he did not buy another car because ‘it was too difficult’ to decide. Today, he does not own a car. He can use community transport, Uber drivers and car sharing schemes. Transpor...

My piece, titled “I Do Not Need To Understand Support You,” depicts a young person, Stephen, wearing dress for the first time outside of protective confines their room. When Stephen’s father, who is sitting at dining room table, sees Stephen in new pink frock, his eyes get wide shock. Why on Earth son dress? Perplexed, he goes over to nervously waits father’s response, expecting worst. But then...

In Hungarian variants of some fairy tale types (especially ATU 315, 707, 725) the operation of a peculiar dream narrative can be observed: the characters use an embedded dream narrative to communicate information. The agent of knowledge conveys information to a mediating person and in doing so (s)he also governs that when the mediator conveys information to the actual addressee (recipient), the...

Forensic psychiatric evaluators of adolescent defendants are often asked to address open-ended questions that affect what court an adolescent will be tried in and what sentence he might receive. Such questions often involve the extent to which the adolescent should be considered less culpable than an adult who has committed a similar offense. Assessing partial or diminished culpability in an ad...