Crime and LSD: The Insanity Plea
American Journal of Psychiatry October 1, 1969 James T. Barter, Martin Reite 14 citations
The authors outline some of the problems involved in making a determination of legal insanity when a crime is committed following the use of LSD. Three cases of murder known to be associated with the use of LSD are described, one of them involving an individual examined personally by the authors. Five specific criteria that the authors have found to be useful aids in forensic examinations of...
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.126.4.531 (opens in new tab)
Plea
Insanity
Forensic psychiatry
Criminology
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