Sanity
Sanity (from
Psychiatry and psychology
Psychiatrist Philip S. Graven suggested the term "un-sane" to describe a condition that is not exactly insane, but not quite sane either.[5]
In The Sane Society, published in 1955, psychologist Erich Fromm proposed that not just individuals, but entire societies "may be lacking in sanity." Fromm argued that one of the most deceptive features of social life involves "consensual validation":[6]
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth... Just as there is a folie à deux there is a folie à millions. The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.[7]
Law
In
Legal definitions of sanity have been little explored by science and medicine, as the concentration has been on illness.[9] It remains entirely impossible to prove sanity. Furthermore, as Korzybski[10] has pointed out repeatedly, insanity to various degrees is widespread in the general population, which includes many people that are considered mentally fit in medical and legal terms. In this connection, Erich Fromm[11] referred to the "pathology of normalcy," while David Cooper proposed that normality was opposed to both madness and sanity.[12]
For a last will and testament to be valid, the testator must have testamentary capacity. This is often expressed using the phrase "being of sound mind and memory".
See also
- George Eman Vaillant
- Insanity defense
- Rationalism
- Sanism
- Self-actualisation
References
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- ^ Chesterton, G. K. 2002. The Outline of Sanity. IHS Press
- ^ Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski
- ^ Korzybski, A. 2010. Selections from Science and Sanity. The New Non-Aristotelian Library, p. VIII.
- ^ When Ecology Does Not Count: Checking the Ecology of The Ecology Check by L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
- ^ Consensual validation at vault-co.com[dead link]
- ^ Fromm, Erich. The Sane Society, Routledge, 1955, pp.14–15.
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Very little research has been done on this topic [legal insanity] in India, however, there are few studies on exploring the clinical picture of the patients in prison.
- ^ Korzybski, A. 2010. Selections from Science and Sanity. The New Non-Aristotelian Library.
- ^ Fromm, Erich. 1955/1990. The Sane Society.
- ^ D Cooper, The Death of the Family (Penguin 1971) p. 12