Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professors at the Harvard Medical School testified last week in the trial of John W. Hindley Jr., providing contradictory information about the accused assassin's mental condition when he shot President Reagan and three other victims in an assassination attempt last January...
...Park E. Dietz, assistant professor of Psychiatry, testified that the 27-year-old Hinckley did not have schizophrenia or any other serious mental illness when he shot the president...
Dietz added that Hinckley had suffered from four relatively minor and "quite common" mental disorders, but had never been psychotic or "unable to test reality...
Dietz and LeMay's testimony followed the testimony three weeks ago of David M Bear, assistant professor of Psychiatry, who said that Hinckley was suffering from schizophrenia. Bear testified for the defense, arguing that Hinckley was not fully responsible for the alleged shooting because his mental disorders had cut him off from reality...
...final scene is one of stinging pathos. Prostrated by his failure, Livingstone lies on his bed, near mental collapse. With self-imposed fortitude, Sechele shout-sings the hymnal verses, "Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising/ Give me joy in my heart, I pray," as if he were the trumpet of perdurable faith...