title: [The psychotic, laws and the Law].
abstract: We relate some clinical examples of patients who went to hospital as offenders (murders). They were not condemned because they were mentally ill; we tried to demonstrate that article 64 of the French law is inadequate in reference to modern psychological, phenomenological and psycho-analytical discoveries. We relate cases of patients who harshly punished themselves because they were not convicted by the Law. The last observation induces the transition between the Law, as Lacan says, (the fundamental taboo of incest) and the laws put up by our societies.
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003415:Crime; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D005602:France; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Le psychotique, les lois et la Loi.