Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Responsibility: A Psychiatric View of the American Law Institute’s “Model Penal Code Proposal”

Lawrence Zelic Freedman; Manfred Guttmacher; Winfred Overholser

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Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Responsibility: A Psychiatric View of the American Law Institute’s “Model Penal Code Proposal”

Authors: Lawrence Zelic Freedman (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) , Manfred Guttmacher (Chief Medical Officer, Supreme Bench of Baltimore) , Winfred Overholser (Superintendent, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D. C.)

Abstract

Keywords: Insanity, Psychiatry, American Law Institute: Model Penal Code Proposal

How to Cite: Freedman, L. , Guttmacher, M. & Overholser, W. (1961) “Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Responsibility: A Psychiatric View of the American Law Institute’s “Model Penal Code Proposal””, Washington University Law Review. 1961(3).