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Published Online: December 1973

Phases of Psychopathology After Assassination

JOSEPH C. FINNEY, DONALD E. SKEETERS, C. DWIGHT AUVENSHINE, and DAVID F. SMITHAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1379

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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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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130 • Number 12 • December 1973

Pages: 1379 - 1380

PubMed: 4148226

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Published in print: December 1973

Published online: 1 April 2006

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JOSEPH C. FINNEY

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DONALD E. SKEETERS

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C. DWIGHT AUVENSHINE

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DAVID F. SMITH

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Private practice of law in Elizabethtown, Ky.

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

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