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...prosecutors demonstrate at the hearing that there is sufficient evidence to pursue the charges, the trial’s outcome will depend on whether defense attorneys can convince a jury that Ali’s previously diagnosed mental conditions rendered him incapable of forming the specific intent to kill...
...just looking at this like a mental break,” McCaffery said. “We have something to prove...
...into some penalty trouble,” Chu said. “We need to clear up those little mental lapses here. We need to come up big when we are a man down...
...A.P.A. president is asked to choose a theme for his or her yearlong term in office. Seligman was thinking big. He wanted to persuade substantial numbers in the profession to explore the region north of zero, to look at what actively made people feel fulfilled, engaged and meaningfully happy. Mental health, he reasoned, should be more than the absence of mental illness. It should be something akin to a vibrant and muscular fitness of the human mind and spirit...
Over the decades, a few psychological researchers had ventured out of the dark realm of mental illness into the sunny land of the mentally hale and hearty. Some of Seligman's own research, for instance, had focused on optimism, a trait shown to be associated with good physical health, less depression and mental illness, longer life and, yes, greater happiness. Perhaps the most eager explorer of this terrain was University of Illinois psychologist Edward Diener, a.k.a. Dr. Happiness. For more than two decades, basically ever since he got tenure and could risk entering an unfashionable field, Diener had been examining...