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However, there must be a formal institutional hearing, the prisoner must be found to be dangerous to himself or others, the prisoner must be diagnosed with a serious mental illness, and the mental health care professional must state that the medication prescribed is in the prisoner's best interest. 14th 1992 Riggins v. Nevada
Research case country location year summary Psychosurgery: 1880s Psychosurgery (also called neurosurgery for mental disorder) has a long history.During the 1960s and 1970s, it became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings.
Conversion disorder – Diagnostic category used in some psychiatric classification systems; Day-care sex-abuse hysteria – Moral panic and series of prosecutions, one example of satanic panic; Folie à deux – Shared psychosis, a psychotic disorder (from the French for "a madness shared by two") Group Think
Most of us aren't well equipped to deal with the mental complexities that come along with these psychological conditions. However, Lev has a few tips for navigating a stalker. Ignore the abuser ...
According to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , published in 1994, a mental disorder is a psychological syndrome or pattern that is associated with distress (e.g., via a painful symptom), disability (impairment in one or more important areas of functioning), increased risk of death, or causes a ...
Kent Cochrane (August 5, 1951 – March 27, 2014 [1]), also known as Patient K.C., was a widely studied Canadian memory disorder patient who has been used as a case study in over 20 neuropsychology papers over the span of 25 years.
Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield's syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood.The earliest presentation of clinical vampirism in psychiatric literature was a psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases, contributed by Richard L. Vanden Bergh and John. F. Kelley. [1]
Christine Costner Sizemore (April 4, 1927 – July 24, 2016) [1] was an American woman who, in the 1950s, was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder. Her case was depicted in the 1950s book The Three Faces of Eve, written by her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, upon ...