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To: Kaslin

Question” Can a psychiatrist claim an insanity defense?


39 posted on 11/09/2009 8:12:37 AM PST by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: ken5050
Question” Can a psychiatrist claim an insanity defense?

Yes, and much more skillfully than a layman.

128 posted on 11/09/2009 8:38:15 AM PST by browardchad ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
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To: ken5050
Every psychologist I've known went into it to figure themselves out because they were “not right.”

However, one crazy ex-girlfriend claimed she went on to her master's in psychology because she wanted to figure ME out. This was about a year after we'd even stopped dating.

Interestingly, she once asked me, in-between her manic-depressive, bi-polar states (she cycled about every three days—one day pretty good, two days of hell with whomever she was around) if she was “being a psycho-hose beast” (an apparent nod to Wayne's World).

194 posted on 11/09/2009 9:23:34 AM PST by ConservativeMind (I love it every time a criminal dies at the hands of a victim.)
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To: ken5050; Revolting cat!
Question” Can a psychiatrist claim an insanity defense?

The Straight Dope: Do dentists have the highest suicide rate

This is one of those dodgy things that "everybody knows." And not just the uninformed public, either--dentists themselves believe it. Since the 1960s dental journals have been carrying articles with headlines like "The Suicidal Professions." Dozens of studies have looked at suicide not only among dentists but among health-care workers in general. With few exceptions, research over the past 40 years has found that dentists (and doctors) take their own lives at a higher-than-average rate. But how much higher? To hear some tell it, you'd better not leave these guys in a room alone...

What's the most suicidal occupation? I won't venture an opinion for the world of work overall, but among health-care types it may well be shrinks. In a study of 18,730 physician deaths from 1967 to 1972 (men and women), psychiatrists accounted for 7 percent of the total but 12 percent of the 593 suicides (source: Rich et al., cited above).


246 posted on 11/09/2009 11:00:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: ken5050
Question” Can a psychiatrist claim an insanity defense?

more importantly, can he be his own expert witness?

266 posted on 11/09/2009 11:44:38 AM PST by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
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