🔗 How to spot a psychopath - Jon Ronson - Books - The Guardian
It is an awful lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy http://is.gd/97c13H #broadmoor #psychiatry
It is an awful lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy http://is.gd/97c13H #broadmoor #psychiatry
The ruling that established the concept of 'not guilty by reason of insanity' and the establishment of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
Men constituted 93% of cases. In all, 73% of offenders were younger than 40 years old. Schizophrenia cases made up 13% of the total, substance related cases constituted 56% and amphetamine cases alone made up 21%; 10% of cases were antisocial personality disorders, and 51% of cases were classified as having a low education level. Unemployment was found in 34% of cases.
This guy translated Quran fully into Japanese for the first time in a mental hospital. He probably faked his mental illness to escape death sentence in the Japanese war trials.