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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 130, No. 12

Articles | December 01, 1973

Phases of Psychopathology After Assassination

JOSEPH C. FINNEY; DONALD E. SKEETERS; C. DWIGHT AUVENSHINE; DAVID F. SMITH

Am J Psychiatry 1973;130:1379-1380.

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Private practice of law in Elizabethtown, Ky.

Instructor in Computer Science and Management, Kentucky State College, Frankfort, Ky.

1973, The American Psychiatric Association

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An Arabic man who assassinated a prominent American politician was tested with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory six weeks and five months after the crime. Analysis of both tests by a psychiatric diagnostic computer program revealed a schizo-affective psychosis with paranoid features. The authors recommend the computer method of diagnosis for medicolegal cases in which public opinion has been aroused and the specialist's objectivity may be impaired.

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