Case Study Patients name: John Nash Diagnosis and Assessment Axis I: Undifferentiated Type Using the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM IV-TR) John Nash has been given the primary diagnosis of being undifferentiated. Plus abnormalities of the brain structure and function‚ disorganized speech and behavior‚ delusions‚ and hallucinations. Nash often has panic attacks‚ withdrawal from social activities‚ and loss of attention to personal hygiene and grooming‚ and
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did kill an old man‚ he still tries to convince the readers that he has not gone mad: “TRUE!-nervous-very‚ very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” (20) Thus‚ from the very beginning of the story‚ a sense of insanity can be detected in the main character because of his brief stops and
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to drown Alex by force. However‚ it must be considered that this battle between the feminine and the masculine encourages postfeminist criticism. Besides the ways in which the film portrays the feminist character in a negative light‚ it creates a false dichotomy (Thomas 2012). The two contrasting characters suggest that a woman must be either a homemaker bound to the domestic sphere or a feminist career woman free to explore the public sphere. The film does not suggest a middle ground between the
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Insanity has a major impact in the book called Night‚ because many of the characters in this book lose their faith in god. It related in the most part in the Holocaust‚ because while being treated so badly they depended on the only person they thought would help them which was god himself. Insanity has a very major role in this book for numoreous character espesalliy Eli. For example‚ Eli had the most faith in god when it came to any type of beliefs he had to when it came to god‚ but it got
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DSM Diagnosis: Include behaviors & symptoms consistent with diagnosis. Axis 1: 304.40 Amphetamine; Axis II: none; Axis III: none; Axis IV: primary‚ social‚ and housing Background information: John Smith is a thirty year old Caucasian male who recently became homeless. Previously living arrangements‚ he were living with roommates. He was admitted to the facility after being evaluated by a clinician for suicidal ideation. His last psychiatric treatment was at SBBH in 2010. He has an ongoing struggle
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that Hinckley Jr. decided that the ultimate way to get her attention was to assassinate President Ronald Regan. In 1981‚ Hinckley Jr.’s defense team pled insanity defense and succeeded. Yoong (2012) states that he was acquitted of all thirteen charges of assault‚ murder and weapon counts and because of this ruling‚ the public perceived the insanity defense had a major loophole in the legal system which allowed a clearly guilty criminal to avoid responsibility and eventual
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The M’Naghten Rule is used for testing legal insanity‚ sometimes refereed to as the "right-wrong" test which is used by most states‚ Criminal defendants that are found to be legally insane cannot be convicted of charges arising from that specific mental defect or disability. Courts use one of these legal tests to determine whether a defendant truly is legally insane. (The M’Naghten Rule (n.d.). The M’Naghten Rule focuses on determining if a criminal defendant knew he or she was committing a crime
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Discuss reliability and validity of diagnosis A reliable and valid diagnosis is one which is correctly reasoned from a satisfying premise and agreed upon by psychiatrists using the same diagnosis system. However‚ there are many factors that make the process of determining a diagnosis intricate. For one to obtain a reliable and valid diagnosis‚ one has to be sure that the classification systems themselves are valid and reliable. Because the concept of abnormality is so complex it is particularly
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Insanity Defense and the Question of Human Agency 1. Explain how a determinist view of free will versus a libertarianism view of free will changes the argument for the insanity defense‚ and capital punishment. 2. Do you think a libertarianism view of free will down plays the effect of the environment on an individual? 3. Are people born inherently good and choose to make bad decisions‚ or does the environment influence an individual’s decisions? 4. Recent studies on intelligence quotient suggest
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just falls deeper and deeper into insanity as the story progresses. In the beginning of the story she tells of how her husband diagnoses her insanity‚ "a slight hysterical tendency‚"(633). Later in the story she admits her own condition‚ "I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes I think it is due to this nervous condition."(634). John‚ her husband‚ makes her stay in bed and rest through the story; this contributes to her gradual slide into complete insanity. She begins to show signs of her
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