DEFENSE PLANS TO EXPLORE KACZYNSKI'S CHILDHOOD.Byline: John Howard For other persons of the same name, see John Howard (disambiguation). John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Lawyers for Unabomber defendant Theodore Kaczynski said Tuesday that their medical specialists will include an expert in child psychiatry child psychiatry Branch of medicine concerned with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders of childhood. It arose as a separate field in the 1920s, largely because of the pioneering work of Anna Freud. and a neuropsychologist Neuropsychologist A clinical psychologist who specializes in assessing psychological status caused by a brain disorder. Mentioned in: Post-Concussion Syndrome familiar with brain disorders. The defense team suggested it would examine Kaczynski's childhood experiences and his relations with his family. Kaczynski's court-appointed attorneys outlined the anticipated expert testimony Testimony about a scientific, technical, or professional issue given by a person qualified to testify because of familiarity with the subject or special training in the field. in a brief filed with U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. Kaczynski's trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 12. Kaczynski, 55, has pleaded not guilty to a 10-count indictment accusing him of four California explosions, including bombings that killed a computer store owner and a forestry lobbyist a decade apart in Sacramento. The defense indicated earlier that Kaczynski, a former Berkeley mathematics professor who lived a solitary existence for years in a tiny Montana cabin, may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia paranoid schizophrenia n. Schizophrenia characterized predominantly by megalomania and delusions of persecution. paranoid schizophrenia DSM 295. . The condition is associated with delusional feelings of persecution, among other characteristics. On Tuesday, as part of a response to a prosecution request that government psychiatrists be allowed to examine Kaczynski, the defense provided Burrell with a brief description of their medical experts. ``One is an expert in child psychiatry who may be called to address early developmental issues; one is an expert in diagnosing and treating the specific mental disease (paranoid schizophrenia) . . .; one is a neuropsychologist who assessed brain-behavior disturbances, and one is a psychologist specializing in family dynamics and interaction,'' the defense said. |
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