The Case of Guiteau—a Psychological Study

Beard, George M.

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“…See, for example, theAmericanJourna1 of Insanity (Brewster, 1882;Bucknill, 1882; Case of Guiteau, 1882;Guiteau, 1882;Guiteaumania, 1882; The United States v. Charles J. Guiteau, 1882), the Alienist and Neurologist (Editorial, 1883a(Editorial, , 1883b(Editorial, and 1883cElwell, 1883a andMcBride, 1883;Spitzka, 1883a and, and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseuse (Beard, 1882;Editorial Department, 1882a, 1882band 1882cGuiteau's insanity, 1882;Hammond, 1882;Mental Condition of Guiteau, 1882a and1882b).…”

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Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth Century America: Experts, Explanations, Evaluations and Exculpations

Geller¹,

Erlen²,

Kaye³

et al. 1991

Anglo-American Law Review

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Feigned insanity in nineteenth-century America is appraised through a review of the medical and legal literature. The authors focus on the explanations for feigning, procedures used in uncovering feigning, and the role of feigning in the courtroom. This discussion of feigned insanity demonstrates the remarkable consistency of approach to this form of malingering over the past 200 years.We begin this appraisal of the history of feigned insanity in nineteenth-century America with a quotation in the tradition of our nineteenth-century predecessors.Ulysses of the Trojan Wars; David, King of Israel; L. Junius Brutus of ancient Rome; and Shakespeare's Hamlet and Edgar (King Lear) were regularly cited in nineteenth-century literature as evidencing feigned insanity. Further, we start with a twentieth-century quotation to highlight the fact that feigned insanity, now more commonly referred to as malingered mental illness, has changed little since the early nineteenth century. In this paper, we survey the literature on feigned insanity in nineteenth-century America, focusing on the explanations for the phenomenon, the procedures used in the examination of the patienddefendant to determine feigning, and the use of feigning for exculpation.

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Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth Century America: Experts, Explanations, Evaluations and Exculpations

Geller¹,

Erlen²,

Kaye³

et al. 1991

Anglo-American Law Review

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“…The experts for both sides flooded the psychiatric journals. See, for example, theAmericanJourna1 of Insanity (Brewster, 1882;Bucknill, 1882;Case of Guiteau, 1882;Guiteau, 1882;Guiteaumania, 1882; The United States v. Charles J. Guiteau, 1882), the Alienist and Neurologist (Editorial, 1883a(Editorial, , 1883b(Editorial, and 1883cElwell, 1883a andMcBride, 1883;Spitzka, 1883a and, and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseuse (Beard, 1882;Editorial Department, 1882a, 1882band 1882cGuiteau's insanity, 1882;Hammond, 1882;Mental Condition of Guiteau, 1882a and1882b).…”

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Feigned insanity in nineteenth‐century America: Tactics, trials, and truth

Geller

Erlen

Kaye

et al. 1990

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…The neurologist Dr. George Beard suggested that if Guiteau had kept quiet in court at least "some of the jury might have brought in a verdict in accordance with the evidence" that he was insane. 67 But Judge Walter Cox 68 concluded very early that it was best that Guiteau not be silenced. As it was, a writer evaluating the trial in 1904 would see the event, widely viewed as an embarrassment at the time, as one of which the nation could be proud.…”

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“…115 The distinction between a sane belief and an insane religious delusion had been recently illustrated by the 1879 case of Charles Freeman, "the modern Abraham." 116 Freeman killed his young daughter Edith, in May 1879, believing that this sacrifice had been divinely commanded and that the child would rise on the third day. 117 Free-man had consulted his wife and after some deliberation had concluded that this was a test, like the test of Abraham, recounted in Chapter 22 of Genesis.…”

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Charles Guiteau and the Christian Nation

Weisbrod¹

1989

Journal of Law and Religion

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Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth Century America: Experts, Explanations, Evaluations and Exculpations

Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth Century America: Experts, Explanations, Evaluations and Exculpations

Feigned insanity in nineteenth‐century America: Tactics, trials, and truth

Charles Guiteau and the Christian Nation

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