Psychosis. Persons who are acutely psychotic, suicidal, or have un- stabilized or severe mental health conditions, including dementia, should not be tested.
Psychosis. If a person is psychotic, but if the casual observer can¬ not see that he is insane and enters into a contract in good faith, the courts may enforce the contract. Whether they will depends chiefly on whether the deal can be dissolved without any loss being suffered. For instance, a salesman makes a contract to sell a machine to a lunatic, not knowing that the customer is psychotic. The purchaser's guardian appeals to have the agreement voided. This will usually be done if the machine can be sent back in exchange for the money paid out. However, if a plumber spends all day fixing the pipes at the request of a lunatic, it is apparent that the contract cannot be set aside without causing a loss to the plumber. The latter cannot get back his time. In such a case the contract would probably be enforced if the plumber was acting in good faith. If a patient is obviously deranged, it will be assumed that the other participant knew it and that he did not act in good faith. Mental Deficiency.—It is often easy to sell a bill of goods to a men¬ tally defective person, and the psychiatrist may be called on to help the patient escape from his ill advised financial commitment. If a child of the corresponding mental age would not have been able to under¬ stand the implications of the contract, the courts will usually set it aside, unless (as sometimes happens) it appears that the patient's maturity and actual experience with the world make him far shrewder than a child of the same mental age. A man of 50 with a mental age of 8 who has been a self-supporting day laborer all his life is not the same as a normal 8 year old child when it comes to making business agree¬ ments. Actually, he has a moderate amount of business judgment, based on years of experience in selling his labor—something that the bright 8 year old child (whose mental age might exceed that of the laborer) would lack. Thus, the psychiatrist should not depend on the parallel with a child of the same mental age in evaluating con¬ tractual capacity. The problem is a pragmatic one, to be decided inde¬ pendently on the facts of each transaction. For instance, I examined a mature woman with a mental age of 7j^ years who was persuaded to buy a twenty-four volume encyclopedia. The salesman dazzled her with his assurance that the cost was only 2 cents a page and that she could stretch the instalments over a year. He never told her the actual aggregate cost, and she signed the contract because 2 cents a page seemed ve...
Psychosis. Commonly read as a dramatic suicide note, the piece details the struggle of a predominant voice that is so unhinged by its mortality that it decides to end its life. By virtue of the play’s structure, 4.48 Psychosis places its audience members in the position of the survivor. Yet, while it may not be unfathomable to interpret some connection between the apparent death of the play’s speaker and Xxxx’x suicide, we will see that the piece concerns a grief that is both constitutive of and carried within language. Read this way, it is possible to identify a certain trajectory proper to the development of Xxxx’x dramatic writing, for over the course of her career the language of grief that is so integral to plays such as Blasted, Xxxxxxx’s Love, and Cleansed transforms into dramatic pieces, specifically Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, which concern a grief that is proper to language itself.
Psychosis. A history of cannabis misuse is common in patients who have schizophrenia; 25% of patients with schizophrenia have a comorbid cannabis use disorder. Cannabis use disorders are very common in first-episode schizophrenic samples and in samples with high proportions of males. (40) Patients commonly report that their reasons for cannabis use are relief of dysphoria and improved ability to socialize.
