Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious debilitating mental illness in which the victim is afflicted with bizarre delusions and prominent hallucinations. The delusions are profoundly invalid beliefs, and the hallucinations are equally invalid perceptions. There is also a disordering of the reasoning process, disordered emotional expression, and loss of motivation for work and social living. Typically, the illness starts in adolescence or early adulthood and, if untreated, usually worsens with age. (Lickey, Gordon, 1991)
The first description of schizophrenia was first given by Emil Kraepelin in 1896, and not until 1952 the “false” idea of what that disease was ceased to exist.
DSM – IV Criteria for Schizophrenia
A. At least two of the following symptoms lasting for as least one month in the active phase (exception: only one symptom if it involves bizarre delusions or if hallucinations involve a running commentary on the person or two or more voices talking with each other).
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized speech (incoherence or frequent derailment)
4. Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
5. Negative symptoms (flat affect, avolition, alogia, or anhedonia)
B. During the course of the disturbance, functioning in one or more areas such as work, social relations, and self-care has deteriorated markedly from premorbid levels (in the case of child or adolescent, failure to reach expected level of social or academic development)
C. Signs of the disorder must be present for at least six months.
D. Schizoaffective and mood disorders with psychotic features must be ruled out.
E. The disturbance is not substance-induced or ...
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...: Martin W. Mullin.
Q: You mean that you were instructed as to how to go about
this killing, then, by the voice?
A: The thought I heard that morning was, "Don't deliver a
stick of it [the firewood) until you kill somebody."
Q: Would it be fair to say that every decision made there-
after was yours?
A: I don't believe decisions were made. I think it was-a rock
doesn't make a decision while it's falling, it just falls.
Four days after the killing of Mr. Perez, on February 17, Brian Card's older brother, Jeff, hiked up to see what his brother and his friends were doing. He was horrified at what he found and called the police. Bullets obtained at autopsy matched those from Mullin's .22 caliber revolver, already in the hands of the police. Four more counts of murder were added to the charges against Herbert W. Mullin.
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