Temporary Insanity

Temporary Insanity is a legal and psychiatric construct denoting a transient mental state in which an individual, due to acute psychological disturbance, lacks the capacity to understand the nature or wrongfulness of their actions at the time of an offense, distinguished from permanent insanity by its episodic and reversible character.

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Publications

1.3K

Citations

66

Authors

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Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Transient Insanity

Authors

66

  1. ND
    Norman Dain

    Cornell University, United States

    3 publications · 131 citations

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  2. PA
    Paul A. Choate

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  3. TS
    Thomas Szasz

    SUNY Upstate Medical University, United States

    2 publications · 200 citations

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  4. AS
    Andrew Scull

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 127 citations

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  5. EJ
    Edward Jarvis

    Kingston Maurward College, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 75 citations

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Venues

  1. American Journal of Psychiatry

    7 publications · 194 citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 4 publications · 71 citations

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  3. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

    3 publications · 87 citations

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  4. Social Problems

    2 publications · 127 citations

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  5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

    2 publications · 35 citations

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