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Dates: during 1960-1960
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From the vast snake pit of Manhattan's Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, Drs. Emanuel Messinger and Benjamin Apfelberg reported that, of 57,000 lawbreakers ex amined over 25 years, a scant 5% had ordinary mental illnesses rated as treat able. Most of the rest were, in some de gree, what psychiatrists call psychopaths or sociopaths - individuals whose consciences are either lacking or inert, and who choose to do what they want when they want. These are notoriously the patients with whom psychiatry has the least success. And in many courts, psychopathy is excluded from the catalogue of mental illnesses that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Criminal or Insane? | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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