Monday 11 October 2010

joseph bloom from OHSU psychiatry

head of community psychiatry
in oregon
transcultural focus

indian native eskimo involvement with the law

more mentally ill people getting in jail services.
http://www.g4s.us/en-US/

today we have the lowest number of beds in the oregon psych system in 75 or 100 years


large numbers in the prison systems
1955---several hundred thousand people in state facilities---oregon OMG!!!!!!

bill sacks
professor emeritus
child psychiatry


back to bloom

first wave
psychotropic medications
1966
he finished his residency


the laws changed in the seventies

it became hard to civilly commit


current dates to 1873
1862

wave: decrease going in people
increase community services and they did not keep up with deinstitutionalization.
bleak care

two state
650 beds
oregon state salem and portland

eastern oregon state hospital
50 beds


mostly filled with court orde
incompetant to stand trial
sent to the hospital for the restoration of competancy

not guilty

by reason

70 geriatic
100 civilly committed

no voluntary payments in state hospital

state can run involuntary care


decrease in general hospital beds
more cash with non-mental care issues

very little care
pushes
by nature of the system
towards police and criminal justice

james otis (i mary eng met his family)
personality change in his personality change

more time by himself
depressed
did not seek resources

mother
inquiries how to involuntarily commit him

investigates civil commitment statute

he had a gun
traffic stop

he was killed by the police

the courts

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/post_20.html

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/05/21/enough-is-enough-parents-of-aaron-campbell-and-keaton-otis-speak-near-tears

Former Director of Oregon Action Joanne Bowman graphically described Otis's death. "They shot him over 30 times and when they were done shooting him, they shot him with the beanbag and the taser and then they left his body in the street, uncovered, for six hours," said Bowman.


dr sack, guest speaker number two
courtroom and prison

106 years

attorneys did not go for a mental health defense

they thought that he might only get 20-40 years
they thought they had worked something out

he goes to mcclaren (juvenile jail system in oregon)
sack is the consultant and evaluator at the prison
works with him till he is 25

got him on therapy and medication
treatment is confidential---he is now in adult treatment
his sister is devoted and she has hired an attorney for an appeal

was kip kinkel understanding that he could make a decision about a state hospital defense
he thought a hospital would be worse than jail
it went to court
2 years ago

judge said no, so he is still in jail

less than positive outcome

case of kip kinkel

oren bolstad
called

killed his parents and went to springfield hospital

high profile case
national news

a year after littleton colorado shootouts

voices, hallucinations

telling him: you need to kill

his parents repeated the verbal abuse his parents issued
"stupid piece of sh*t"

see this link recounting the sack perspective as psychiatrist:

kip kinkel shoplifted nine inch nails
he identified with the lyrics

trent reznor sang about
"god damn these voices in my head"

he quoted this at school and got in trouble fro saying "god damn"

he was reluctant to take medicine
thought he was chipped and others had cameras in their glasses

it was very painful for orin bolstad

he tried prozac
orin bolstad
william sack

speaks of delusions:
as a necessary to dia-gnosis
schizo-phrenia
an archaic term
meaning split brain

which i think should be reformulated for greater acuracy---or more specific to what was not known of the neuroscience of cognition

i support

INDUSTRY LITERATURE
(pre-blogosphere)


(i was in productions of these with director bart whitman and bill siesser who played critical characters dysart and bromden  in the nineties at montgomery bell academy as a teenager----and was well avised)))))





i worked on a not guilty by reason of insanity case with los angeles attorney stephen schwartz in 2007 regarding a murder by a young man who murdered a clerk with a baseball bat at a convenience store.

we met with the family.

it was very formative.

this was prior to taking criminal law or administration of justice:police procedure at LACC .


bloom is the forensic psychiatrist
clinical diagnoses 

statute
you must know right from wrong to be guilty of murder

oregon insanity test
mcnaughten test---30 states

american law institute test---at tim e of crime by way of defect


lack substantial capacity to interpret the criminal content of the act
appreciate
test of volitional 


an hour after the shooting
another psychiatrist saw him

no ask about voices
strong feeling that he was psychotic

plea bargain agreed to this verdict

everything relates to the time of the crime


everything at the trial will relate to this crime
affirmative defense to the charge

yes i did this
but was insane at the time



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