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...prosecutor recalled that West testified that the defendant had been deprived of sleep-a classic brainwashing technique-although his report stated that she had been awakened at night only once. How did West decide that Patty had really lost sleep, Bancroft wanted to know. "An educated guess," responded the psychiatrist. "So," Bancroft shot back, "you made an 'educated guess' on one of the most important parts of the deprivation concept...
Bailey's next expert was Dr. Martin Orne, 48, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in detecting when a subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...
Agreeing with West that Patty had been forced to go along with her captors, Orne also spoke of her being "dissociated" from reality. The portly psychiatrist said Patty was the victim of a traumatic neurosis that is "fortunately not something we see in civilian life. In fact, the only time I've seen it is in [prisoner of war] returnees." Orne admitted to Bancroft that Patty might be deceiving him and others, but he added that after weighing all the possibilities, he felt "the weight of the data is unequivocally that she was not simulating...
...courtroom last week, U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Dr. Louis J. West argued that making a captive feel "debility, dependency and dread" is the key to controlling his behavior. And, added West, Patty was a victim of "persuasive coercion"-another description for gradually breaking down a P.O.W...
...long after the visit to the Law School, Spiro was in Massachusetts General Hospital, suffering from emotional stress. He emerged in time for a court appearance last month, pleading "Not Guilty," and the court appointed a psychiatrist to examine him. Pretrial motions are in the offing, and Spiro-watchers are betting on a temporary insanity plea. No one knows for sure, of course, because his lawyer William P. Homans '41 is mum on the question...