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...jury was chosen for the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother accused of drowning her two sons in a car last year. The judge in the case found her competent to stand trial, following the recommendation of a state psychiatrist, despite the expert's opinion that Smith is suicidal and could try to sabotage her defense if she takes the stand. The prosecution seeks the death penalty and has reportedly denied a defense offer of 30 years in prison...
...appears that Smith may have offered several different, conflicting versions of these events. The Charlotte Observer has reported that in 1989 she told a psychiatrist that the molestation was in fact a consensual "affair" that had been going on since she was 15-one that she was happy about because she was jealous that her mother was getting all Russell's attention. The Observer also quoted unnamed sources as stating that Russell admitted to authorities that he and Smith continued to have sexual relations until as recently as six months before the murders...
Taking the recommendation of the state's chief psychiatrist, Dr. Donald Morgan, South Carolina Circuit Judge William Howard ruled thatSusan Smith is mentally able to stand trial. A subdued Smith quietly told the judge during a hearing today that she understood that she is charged with murder and faces the death penalty if convicted. Her attorney, David Bruck, had argued that his client was suicidal and if called to testify might ask the jury to give her the death penalty. Dr. Morgan found Smith to be suicidal, butsaid she was saneand able to understand the proceedings. After the hearing, Bruck...
Twelve Dreams, oddly, might also have been titled Chornicle of a Death Foretold. The play, set in New England in 1936, focuses on a young girl named Emma (Mischa Barton), who presents her psychiatrist father (Harry Groener) with a book of her puzzling dreams. Finding their interpretation intractable, he consults a renowned professor (Jan Rubes), who suggests that the dreams "foretell the demise of the dreamer." Though all the characters are fictional, the plot springs from a case study of Carl Jung's; the psychologist found corroboration for his theory of the "collective unconscious" in a 10-year-old whose...
...monthly bleeding at age 60, a fairly common consequence of some types of hormone therapy. "Why fight vainly to remain in a stage of life you can't be in anymore, instead of enjoying the stage you are in?" asks Dr. Nada Stotland, 51, an HRT dropout. Stotland, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, says she is "extra skeptical, because there are powerful forces that aim one toward prescribed hormones, but there is no profit motive in not prescribing something...