Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth, with the game still scoreless as both sides traded mental errors, B.C. leftfielder Gary Anderson banged Stewart's first pitch to right center field for a double. Anderson moved to third after shortstop Kevin McDonald walked and was erased on a pretty 6-4-3 double play...
Suicide does not show mental imbalance but "is the most elementary of human rights," Szasz said adding, "if you want to hurt yourself, you have that right. I am opposed to all government intrusion in this area...
Claiming that mental illness does not exist. Szasz said doctors declare people to be mentally ill only on the basis of their own ethical and moral standards...
Szasz condemned the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for refusing to protect the rights of "persons accused of mental illness." Szasz compared commitment to an institution with slavery, and recalled that the ACLU also supported the confinement of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World...
...litigious land. But the past quarter-century has brought a particularly explosive burst of growth in the legal industry. Since the mid-1950s the courts have discovered a spate of new constitutional rights, protections and entitlements for whole groups of people?for example, disenfranchised voters, women, Latins, prisoners, children, mental patients. Countless others, emboldened by seven-figure awards in personal injury suits, have gone to court in quest of what San Francisco Defense Lawyer Scott Conley sardonically calls the "pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." At the same time, legislative bodies of every size across America have...