Mental disorders and the "system of judgmental responsibility"

Boston University Law Review

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 621-640

  Allen, Anita L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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References (111)

1. RONALD DWORHN, JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS (forthcoming 2010) (Apr. 17, 2009 manuscript at 143, on file with the Boston University Law Review).
2. Id. (manuscript at 138).
3. Id.
4. Id. (manuscript at 67).
5. Id. (manuscript at 68).
6. See Press Release, National Institute of Mental Health, Mental Illness Exacts Heavy Toll, Beginning in Youth (June 6, 2005), available at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2005/mental-illness-exacts-heavy-toll- beginning-in-youth.shtml
7. DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 143).
8. Id. (manuscript at 137-60).
9. See id.
10. See id.
11. See id. (manuscript at 146).
12. Id. (manuscript at 159).
13. Dworkin's "we" ordinary people, contrasted with "they," the persons with mental conditions, refers to something of a chimera. Lots of "us" are "them."
14. Press Release, National Institute of Mental Health, supra note 6.
15. See id.
16. Id.
17. U.S. DEP'T OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVS., MENTAL HEALTH: A REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL 46 (1999), available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/B/B/H/S/- /nnbbhs.pdf.
18. ELIZABETH WURTZEL, PROZAC NATION: YOUNG AND DEPRESSED IN AMERICA 48 (First Replica Books 1999) (1994).
19. Id.
20. See Rick B. Allen, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Lawyers, 31 CREIGHTON L. REV. 265, 265-66 (1997).
21. See Toni Callas, Jury Split on Judge's Insanity Defense, PHILA. INQUIRER, Oct. 1, 2005, at B01.
22. See Diana Jean Schemo, A Prison Term of 15 Months for Wachtler, N. Y. TIMES, Sept. 10, 1993, at Bl;
23. Judge Not, PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, July 1, 1997, http://www.psychologytoday. com/articles/199707/judge-not.
24. See generally KATHARINE GRAHAM, PERSONAL HISTORY (1997).
25. See generally ELYN R. SAKS, THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD (2007).
26. See MICHAEL S. MOORE, LAW AND PSYCHIATRY: RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP 15581 (1984) (arguing that mental illness is not a myth and thus that the search for the line between the "bad and the sick" must continue).
27. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 154-55).
28. See generally WILLIAM STYRON, DARKNESS VISIBLE: A MEMOIR OF MADNESS (1990).
29. See generally KITTY DUKAHS WITH JANE SCOVELL, NOW YOU KNOW (1990).
30. DANIELLE STEEL, HIS BRIGHT LIGHT: THE STORY OF NICK TRAINA 93 (1998) (quoting musician Nick Traina).
31. KAY REDFDELD JAMISON, AN UNQUIET MIND 120(1995).
32. PATTY DUKE WITH GLORIA HOCHMAN, A BRILLIANT MADNESS 19 (paperback ed. 1993).
33. ANDY BEHRMAN, ELECTROBOY 20,22 (2002).
34. GRAHAM, supra note 23, at 303 (quoting Philip Graham).
35. See, e.g., DANIEL C. DENNETT, ELBOW ROOM: THE VARIETIES OF FREE WILL WORTH WANTING 45 (1984).
36. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 151).
37. See, e.g., DENNETT, supra note 34, at 157 ("We also find it plausible to judge that nonhuman animals, infants, and those who are severely handicapped mentally are not responsible at all.").
38. See id.
39. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 137-60).
40. Id. (manuscript at 139).
41. Id. (manuscript at 150-53).
42. Id. (manuscript at 137).
43. Id.
44. Id.
45. Id. (manuscript at 141).
46. See id. (manuscript at 137-60).
47. Id. (manuscript at 139).
48. Id. (manuscript at 143).
49. Id.
50. Id.
51. Note that people with mental illness have this internal sense of deliberate action, too.
52. See DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 145).
53. Id. (manuscript at 141).
54. Id.
55. Id. (manuscript at 154).
56. See, e.g., Johnson v. Lambotte, 363 P.2d 165,166 (Colo. 1961).
57. See Becker v. Interstate Props., 569 F.2d 1203,1209,1214-15 (3d Or. 1977).
58. DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 150).
59. See AM. PSYCHIATRIC ASS'N, DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, at xxi-xxiii (4th ed. 1994).
60. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 124).
61. Id. (manuscript at 141).
62. DUKE, supra note 31, at 236.
63. ROY PORTER, MADNESS: A BRIEF HISTORY 173-77 (2002).
64. MICHEL FOUCAULT, ABNORMAL: LECTURES AT THE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE 1974-1975, at 143-45 (Arnold I. Davidson ed., Graham Burchell trans., Picador 2003) (1999).
65. See SIGMUND FREUD, NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS 60-61 (James Strachey ed. & trans., W.W. Norton & Co. 1965) (1933).
66. Id. at 61 (alterations in original).
67. Id.
68. See id.
69. See id.
70. See id.
71. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 157).
72. See generally JAMISON, supra note 30.
73. Id. at 120.
74. Id. at 121.
75. DWORKIN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 159).
76. See LUJAN R. FÜRST, BEFORE FREUD: HYSTERIA AND HYPNOSIS IN LATER NINETEENTHCENTURY PSYCHIATRIC CASES 17-33 (2008).
77. See Kenneth Tardiff, Mental Illness: Assessment and Management of Violent Patients, in 2 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIOLENCE, PEACE, CONFLICT 413,416 (Lester Kurtz ed., 1999).
78. DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 162).
79. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304,321 (2002).
80. See Richard A. Friedman, Uncovering an Epidemic: Screening for Mental Illness in Teens, 355 NEW ENG. J. MED. 2717, 2717 (2006) ("[H]alf of all serious adult psychiatric illnesses - including major depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse - start by 14 years of age, and three fourths of them are present by 25 years of age.").
81. See Tardiff, supra note 76, at 416.
82. DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 158).
83. Johns Hopkins Univ. v. Bd. of Labor, 761 A.2d 350,351 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2000).
84. Gossage v. Roberts, 904 S.W.2d 246, 247 (Ky. Ct. App. 1995).
85. Stuyvesant Assoes, v. Doe, 534 A.2d 448,449 (N.J. Super. Ct Law Div. 1987).
86. Bashi v. Wodarz, 53 Cal. Rptr. 2d 635,637 (Ct. App. 1996).
87. Breunig v. Am. Family Ins. Co., 173 N.W.2d 619,622 (Wis. 1970).
88. Eidson v. Reprod. Health Servs., 863 S.W.2d 621,622-24 (Mo. Ct. App. 1993).
89. R.D. v. W.H., 875 P.2d 26, 28 (Wyo. 1994).
90. See DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 158-59).
91. Commonwealth v. Tempest, 437 A.2d 952,953 (Pa. 1981).
92. Id. at 954.
93. Id. at 953.
94. Id. at 954.
95. Id. at 955.
96. Id. at 954.
97. Id.
98. See State v. Martin, 950 S.W.2d 20,21 (Tenn. 1997).
99. Id.
100. Id.
101. Id.
102. Id.
103. Id.
104. Id. at 22.
105. Id. at 21.
106. DWORHN, supra note 1 (manuscript at 156).
107. See id.
108. Id. (manuscript at 150).
109. Id. (manuscript at 158).
110. Id. (manuscript at 159).
111. State v. Martin, 950 S.W.2d 20,22 n.1 (Tenn. 1997).