Sentence examples for mental defences from inspiring English sources

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This anxiety is managed via a range of mental defences, both conscious and unconscious.

As he puts it: "Life can be shit, horrible things do happen at random to innocent people, and our mental defences can make things worse".

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Eight of its 11 beaches have made a remarkable turnaround, earning "blue flag" status from the Canadian nonprofit Environ-mental Defence for meeting strict water quality standards.

According to legal analysts, Cutler may choose to pursue a mental state defence, arguing that Spector was not responsible for his actions because of the combined effects of alcohol and medication, or a technical defence, asserting that Clarkson's death resulted from the gun misfiring.

After Kaczynski learned that his legal team was pursuing a mental health defence, and that he could no longer dismiss his lawyers, he attempted to commit suicide in his cell.

"James Holmes was genetically gifted with a high IQ, and genetically cursed with a family history of pervasive and serious mental illness," defence lawyer Katherine Spengler said.

Having been given a week by his counsel to consider the matter, Lamb wrote to Nosanchuk that he wished to attempt a mental disorder defence.

Nosanchuk quickly resolved that the only way to win the case and prevent the teenager from being hanged was to explore the background and circumstances both of the incident and of Lamb himself with a view to a mental disorder defence.

"It can be a way of trying to boost one's esteem when the person has nothing to be rightly proud about," says Professor Neil Greenberg, a British Navy veteran and specialist in defence mental health at King's College London.

And the current storm in response to Nasir has produced the following responses: the Indonesian Psychiatrists Association has labelled LGBT as a mental disorder; our defence minister, Ryamizard Ryacudu, said that the movement was a proxy "war"; the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission has issued seven warnings against men who promote effeminate behaviour on TV.

By contrast, in his Mental Images – A Defence, Hannay (1971) vigorously championed the reality of inner pictures (see also Hannay, 1973, and for a counterargument see Candlish, 1975).

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