Henrik Walter Research Division of Mind and Brain, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2013 Sep 5. WHAT ARE MENTAL DISORDERS? Modern psychiatry has taken a lot of effort to make the description of psychopathology...
Mental Sickness
The concept of a neurochemical imbalance of neurotransmitters became the favored explanatory model for psychiatric disorders. Interestingly, at the same time as psychiatry for the first time used effective medications, the movement of antipsychiatry emerged. It was part of...
Unsoundness of mind – whom the onus lies to prove unsoundness of mind. In law, the presumption is that every person is sane to the extent that he knows the natural consequences of his act. The burden of proof...