TY  - JOUR
T1  - PSychosis, psychiatry, and homicide
AU  - Szasz TS
Y1  - 1972/05/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1972.03200060088027
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 864
EP  - 865
VL  - 220
IS  - 6
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    The report "Homicide during a psychosis induced by LSD" (219:869,1972) presents the "case history" of a 22-year-old graduate student who, while in Israel and while allegedly under the influence of LSD, killed one person and injured two others. A year before, after assaulting an elderly woman, "The police caught him and took him to a mental hospital where he recovered rapidly and was released in a few days." After the murder, "His parents had brought him home from Israel after he had been declared unfit to stand trial for homicide because of insanity. On admission he was noted to be a lithe, handsome young man with a guarded manner but no evidence of psychosis." Certainly, the Israeli authorities could have waited till this killer's alleged psychosis cleared, and could have then tried and punished him.Here, then, is the story of a young man who, between
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1972.03200060088027
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1972.03200060088027
ER  -