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Judicial Intervention As A Psychiatric Therapy Tool, Eleanor A. Blackley
Judicial Intervention As A Psychiatric Therapy Tool, Eleanor A. Blackley
Cleveland State Law Review
Commitment to a mental institution by itself does not, in all states, suspend civil rights. The court psychiatric unit is an early outpost of a preventive, coordinative venture which gives, at long last, practical humane expression to protection of and consideration for the civil rights of the mentally ill adult involuntary patient whose condition obstructs his capacity to demand such safeguards himself. Persons suffering from mental disorders are frequently too disabled to claim their civil rights themselves.
The Terror Neurosis, David I. Sindell
The Terror Neurosis, David I. Sindell
Cleveland State Law Review
In 1934, Strauss and Savitzky wrote a paper' in which they elaborated a particular syndrome known as a "terror neuro- sis," and stated that it was frequently found in such natural disasters as earthquakes, or in sea or military disasters, and mining catastrophes. Physical injuries in these cases, they said, may be slight or absent. For this reason, Strauss and Savitzky objected to the use of the term "traumatic neurosis" on the ground that the neurosis had no physical cause as such.
Damages For Emotional Distress In Ohio, James G. Young
Damages For Emotional Distress In Ohio, James G. Young
Cleveland State Law Review
A review of Ohio cases reveals that Ohio law declares there cannot be recovery for mental distress unless it is accompanied by contemporaneous physical injury (i.e., contact), or unless the act was wilful, wanton or intentional. No Ohio cases were found where recovery for purely mental suffering, caused negligently, in and of itself was permitted.