Word: karpman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benjamin Karpman took one extreme position. His prediction: in 50 years...
...psychiatry," he conceded, "but they're all wrong. The question is simply, 'Is the accused sick or not?' You can't have mental illness and criminal responsibility in the same person at the same time." From the Snake Pit. Few psychiatrists lined up behind Dr. Karpman's banner...
Such a compromise course seemed the only way out for the psychiatrists. Wisconsin's Dr. Seymour L. Halleck complained that extremists like Washington's Karpman who say "there are no criminals, only the insane" are making it "more difficult for the rest of us who want to make practical progress gradually...