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Lionel wrote:

Bruce J. Richman a écrit :

In other words, you've confirmed my opinion that you're insane.

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Date :2003-12-03 14:56:35 PST

"And for the record, "insane" - is a term used in the United States at
least - by lawyers primarily in criminal procedings and also in
involuntary committments to psychiatric hospitals. It is not a
psychological term and is not used to diagnose people by psychologists
and/or psychiatrists."

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Funny no ?

Yes, no. This shows Richman writing as an ordinary person, not as a
psychologist.

Stephen








Lionel, as is his almost daily custom, made a fool of himself and once again
showed his stupidity and desperation, by inappropriately using the term
"senile" in one of his juvenile efforts to attack another poster. There are
intelligent flamers who have nothing else to say, and then there is Lionel - a
rather dumb and misinformed flamer with nothing else to say. When it was
pointed out to him that his simplistic cutting and pasting of a "dictionary
definition" of "senile" was totally lacking, he went back to the sewer (AKA
his way of looking at the world) to see what other idiotic insults he could
find.

Apparently, my posting of a clinical, psychiatrically-approved definition of
"senile dementia" was too much for him to either comprehend or accept. So - in
an act of desperation - he decided to make sure we all understand that he is
insane - i.e. he doesn't know the difference between right and wrong and is
unaware of the consequences of his actions - which is the legal definition of
insanity.

Note that "insanity" is a legal term, not a medical one. If Lionel were to
publish his idiotic comments about "senility", he could, of course, be sued for
libel. His only defense would be that he is "insane:".

Lionel has also called Jacques Chirac senile. Are we to assume that Dr.
Lionel Chapuis, with his Ph.D. in Sewage & Debris, has personally evaluated Mr.
Chirac face to face and come up with this "expert opinion"? Or should we
assume that Dr. Chapuis has decided to crepitate in public on RAO? Of course,
once again, Lionel could say he;s not guilty by reason of insanity, and most of
RAO would agree with him.