Sentence examples for mental defense from inspiring English sources

"It involves a mental defense mechanism, where you believe you are making major decisions without error," he told me.

According to psychologists, this is a mental defense mechanism.

Ragland further stated that Slee was pressured into taking the course, that he endured mind control that reduced his capacity for mental defense, and that est trainers prevented medical professionals from quickly gaining access to his body.

It provides information on dealing with the effects of post-traumatic stress and discusses coping mechanisms, emotional triggers and mental defenses.

"Defendants who may have a meritorious mental health defense do not pursue the defense because the likely outcome is more punitive than a guilty verdict," Garton says.

After that decision, Mr. Levine said he was considering a mental illness defense.

An Army staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians must undergo an official sanity review before a mental health defense can be presented.

An Army staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians must undergo an official sanity review before a mental health defense can be presented, the military judge overseeing the case said Thursday.

As part of their proposed "mental defect' defense of Mr. Kaczynski, his lawyers have said he is afraid of psychiatrists and incapable of cooperating with them because of his illness.

Oct. 2000: Federal public defenders file a sealed notice with the court of their intention to raise a mental illness defense during his trial.

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