Shrunk Excerpt #3
Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind
“David Milgaard: Wrongful Conviction and Tunnel Vision”
by Dr. Patrick Baillie
I don’t mean be taken as doubting that David displayed bizarre, irrational, potentially psychotic symptoms on multiple occasions during his twenty-three years in custody. At times, his sleep was seriously disrupted by anxiety over his case; at times, he accessed prison brew or other substances that might have influenced his behaviour. Likely, at times, he was psychotic. My concern relates to how those symptoms were then viewed in terms of his risk for ‘re-offence’, especially when the only delusion repeatedly cited was the one relating to David being wedded to his contention that he was innocent regarding the death of the young nurse.
About Dr. Patrick Baillie
Patrick Baillie, Ph.D., LL.B. is a forensic psychologist at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary and a lawyer. Since 1995, he has been a Consulting Psychologist with Calgary Police Service, Psychological Services Division. He has written hundreds of pre-sentence assessments used by all levels of courts in Alberta. For six years, he was a member (and for two years Chair) of the Accreditation Panel of the Canadian Psychological Association; and in 2007, he was named as a member (and, later, Chair) of the Mental Health and the Law Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. In 2008, he received the John G. Paterson Media Award from the Psychologists Association of Alberta for his contribution towards keeping the public informed about psychological knowledge via the media. In the months after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, he served as a volunteer psychologist with New York Police Department and, in 2011, he travelled to Haiti to provide psychological services after that country’s devastating earthquake. In 2014, he received the John Service Member of the Year Award from the Canadian Psychological Association, in recognition of his various volunteer efforts to promote the field of psychology.
“David Milgaard: Wrongful Conviction and Tunnel Vision”
by Dr. Patrick Baillie
I don’t mean be taken as doubting that David displayed bizarre, irrational, potentially psychotic symptoms on multiple occasions during his twenty-three years in custody. At times, his sleep was seriously disrupted by anxiety over his case; at times, he accessed prison brew or other substances that might have influenced his behaviour. Likely, at times, he was psychotic. My concern relates to how those symptoms were then viewed in terms of his risk for ‘re-offence’, especially when the only delusion repeatedly cited was the one relating to David being wedded to his contention that he was innocent regarding the death of the young nurse.
About Dr. Patrick Baillie
Patrick Baillie, Ph.D., LL.B. is a forensic psychologist at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary and a lawyer. Since 1995, he has been a Consulting Psychologist with Calgary Police Service, Psychological Services Division. He has written hundreds of pre-sentence assessments used by all levels of courts in Alberta. For six years, he was a member (and for two years Chair) of the Accreditation Panel of the Canadian Psychological Association; and in 2007, he was named as a member (and, later, Chair) of the Mental Health and the Law Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. In 2008, he received the John G. Paterson Media Award from the Psychologists Association of Alberta for his contribution towards keeping the public informed about psychological knowledge via the media. In the months after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, he served as a volunteer psychologist with New York Police Department and, in 2011, he travelled to Haiti to provide psychological services after that country’s devastating earthquake. In 2014, he received the John Service Member of the Year Award from the Canadian Psychological Association, in recognition of his various volunteer efforts to promote the field of psychology.
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