5 Shocking Crimes Where Psychiatry and the Law Collided

Описание: In this video, Dr Sanil Rege—Consultant Psychiatrist examines five shocking real-life crimes where psychiatry, neuroscience, and law collided.
You’ll meet individuals whose actions raised urgent questions: Was it madness or method? Psychosis or planning? Sleepwalking or murder? From postpartum psychosis to cannibalistic paraphilias, this episode unpacks the forensic psychiatric complexities behind some of the most disturbing cases ever tried in court.

Chapters
00:00 – Psychiatry vs Criminal Law
01:27 – Case 1: Andrea Yates – Postpartum Psychosis and Tragedy
04:25 – Case 2: Richard Trenton Chase – Vampire of Sacramento
07:07 – Case 3: Kenneth Parks – The Sleepwalking Defence
09:39 – Case 4: Chris Benoit – CTE and Neurodegeneration
11:56 – Case 5: Issei Sagawa – Sane Yet Unimaginable
14:34 – Final Thoughts: The Thin Line Between Biology and Blame

🎓 Key Educational Takeaways for Clinicians and Viewers:
• Postpartum psychosis can manifest with structured delusions and command hallucinations despite outward coherence.
• Somatic delusions and partial planning can coexist in psychosis, complicating legal assessments of culpability.
• Parasomnias such as sleepwalking highlight the difficulty in determining intent in automatism.
• CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) mimics psychiatric syndromes and challenges psychiatric intervention due to its post-mortem diagnosis.
• Paraphilic disorders like necrophilic cannibalism can exist with full awareness, raising questions about psychiatry’s limits in explaining “evil.”
These cases highlight psychiatry’s struggle with:
• Prediction and prevention failures
• Diagnostic adequacy without action
• The mismatch between medical spectrums and binary legal systems
• Misinterpretation of emotional expression in courtrooms

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