Word: defectiveness
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...Director of ihe Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, has already attracted wide attention with his work on anorexia nervosa, the "starvation disease" (TIME, July 28). Now Minuchin and his team are concentrating on asthma and diabetes. In one case of diabetic sisters, ages twelve and 17, doctors found a metabolic defect, but only the younger sister responded to drugs and diet changes. A therapist found out why: each parent constantly tried to get her support in fights with the other parent. The allegiance of the twelve-year-old was not sought. Once the parents stopped trapping the older sister in their...
...Common Defect. Most of the pilots' widows thought the problem was more fundamental, and 50 of them brought suit in 1971 against Lockheed, claiming that the planes had been improperly designed. Their counsel, flamboyant San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli, had difficulty proving their case, however. "There wasn't a common defect to all the planes as we had thought," said a Belli associate last week. Nevertheless, it appeared that a few of the widows might win their cases, and Lockheed insurers agreed to settle out of court. The reparations totaled a modest $1.2 million, about half...
...able to distinguish right from wrong. In 1954 the Durham rule, formulated by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, greatly broadened the psychiatric defense by declaring that a person is not criminally responsible "if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." In a refinement of both rules, the Model Penal Code of 1962-now essentially the rule in 20 states and most federal courts-bases the test on a defendant's lack of "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements...
...habitual rapists "have developed an anger and contempt for women," says Nicholas Groth, chief psychologist of the Massachusetts Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
Doctors have yet to determine the genetic defect responsible for Joseph illness. But they have been able to trace its transmission. The disease can be passed on only by those who are actually afflicted; each of their offspring has a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting the ailment. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to detect before it begins-sometimes in the victims' teens, more usually in the mid-20s. By then, they have often started having children of their own and have passed the family disease along to them...