Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bitter Clash. Browning then called Dr. Joel Fort, a San Francisco practitioner in mental health. The prosecution hoped that he would offset the eminent defense psychiatrists, who supported Bailey's contention that Patty had been coerced by the S.L.A. into helping to rob the bank. An eye-catching figure with a shaved head, Fort clashed bitterly with Bailey; at one point, the two accused each other of lying. Fort testified that he had interviewed Patty for 15 hours, studied documents on the case for some 300 hours, and even spent an hour in one of the closets where...
...allude to claims of extramarital escapades by both partners, he did not clearly identify the grounds. Mrs. Firestone was awarded alimony, which Florida law bans if the grounds for a divorce include adultery. She sued Time Inc. for libel and won a jury verdict of $100,000 for her mental anguish and suffering...
...mediate clashes between blacks and whites. Since Georgia did not have federal referees to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Carter deputized all the high school principals in the state as registrars so that they could sign up voters at school. He overhauled the state prison and mental hospitals, which contained a high proportion of blacks. He set up a system of drug treatment and day care centers...
Classic Syndrome. West acknowledged to Bancroft that sometimes he found it a "significant" reflection of Patty's mental state when she protested her treatment by the S.L.A., and sometimes when she did not. Asked Bancroft incredulously: "You find it 'significant' when she does complain and 'significant' when she doesn't complain...
...passed its celebrated Habeas Corpus Act, which provided that anyone keeping someone in custody could be required to "produce the body" and show that he was legally holding it. The Great Writ has since spread to include attacks on all manner of wrongful custody-from improper confinement in mental institutions to a divorced father's spiriting away of his children. Today all 50 U.S. states permit habeas corpus petitions (or their like), and so does federal law. But while the U.S. Constitution bars suspension of the privilege except "in cases of rebellion or invasion," it does not specify...