Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those close to him say the Pope retains all the mental drive of his early days. Vatican aides say he has not dropped any of the reins of church government. "I've watched him deal with extremely complicated decisions," says a Vatican bishop, "and the way he works them through shows that he's still very sharp and in full control." Important decisions are "the Pope's and his alone...
...called to take him away. "Why are you doing this?" the teenager cried out. "Because you're unhappy here," his mother replied. "If you don't cooperate," one of his escorts said, "we'll have to put you in handcuffs." David's first stop was Brightway Adolescent Hospital, a mental facility 700 miles away in St. George, Utah. Although David had no criminal record, was not violent and hadn't been abusing drugs or alcohol, a Brightway psychiatrist determined that the boy required prolonged treatment. He prescribed a one-year stay at Tranquility Bay, a "behavior modification school...
...able to understand the nature and consequences of the charges and be able to assist in one's defense. It is obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only a foolish or delusional person would contemplate it. Kaczynski has lots of clever ideas, but they are also bizarre...
...because, his lawyers claimed, he has an innate, deep-seated fear of them. But in one of the biggest surprises of the week, Kaczynski agreed to be examined in order to prove that he could represent himself, thus putting himself in the position of a defendant who is probably mentally ill trying to appear normal so that he can escape a mental-illness defense...
...hearing over, Kaczynski huddled with his attorneys briefly, then stood up, clutching his envelope full of scribbled notes and headed for the door. The marshals have him under 24-hour suicide watch at the jail as the proceedings pause while the experts have a chance to size up his mental state. And through it all, he will probably go on insisting he is not insane even as he manages with each successive gesture to suggest otherwise...