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Though the Durham Rule was designed to bring the law in line with modern psychiatric thinking, it proved as disturbing to many psychiatrists as to lawyers. Baltimore's famed Forensic Psychiatrist Manfred S. Guttmacher last week offered an explanation. The rule's broad implications, he said, presage a socio-psychiatric revolution as sweeping as that of 1792. when Philippe Pinel struck the chains from the mentally ill in Paris asylums. Many of his colleagues. Dr. Guttmacher intimated, fear a change because of their own deficiencies...
Labels Are Not Enough. The Durham court has held that "unexplained medical labels-schizophrenia, paranoia, psychosis, neurosis, psychopathy-are not enough." The psychiatrist called as an expert witness must explain also the development of the disease and how it affected the accused's behavior. This. Dr. Guttmacher said politely, is "a challenge which, I fear, few psychiatrists are equipped to meet." Encouraging progress was reported from California, where San Francisco's Dr. Bernard Diamond has helped to change the administration of justice by winning acceptance in the courts of the principle of "diminished responsibility." This is a grey...
...Named (as was the M'Xaghten Rule) for the defendant in the case: Monte Durham, a smalltime robber and housebreaker...
...Museum. Several months ago, when he began rounding up American-owned paintings for his current exhibition of Regency Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence, he found that "several of the best paintings had simply gone home." There was a time when Lord Duveen was reported willing to pay the Earl of Durham $1,000,000 for Lawrence's famous Red Boy, but a few years later, no one seemed to want Lawrence at all. Now, along with his great contemporaries, he is in demand once again-both in the U.S. and at home...