“That proves you mad, because you know it not”: impaired insight and the dilemma of governing psychiatric patients as legal subjects
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-017-9288-0
Abstract: This article investigates “impaired insight,” a controversial psychiatric category describing a mad person unable to know his or her madness. Like “moral insanity” and other concepts before it, impaired insight offers a way to link… read more here.
Keywords: proves mad; dilemma; know impaired; impaired insight ... See more keywords