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They Call Him Crazy, by John Cloud.

Published: July 15 2002.
Accessed: October 17 2011.


Rodney Yoder is a jerk. 

He is preternaturally rude. He sues people constantly. He abused the two women who put up with him. And he has allegedly written scores of letters to public figures that talk of slaughtering them in dreadful ways. Yodder is not is prison for these offences but at a hospital, Chester Mental Health Center. Doctor's who have  chatted with him have found no evidence of psychosis bur only a justifiably angry man. The court proceeding will be extraordinary not only because it could finally liberate a man once described in court as one of Illinois' most dangerous mental patients but also because the entire field of psychiatry will go on trial.Yoder plans to call experts to testify that "mentally ill" is merely a term we use to describe socially unacceptable people and that any medical field that can hold a man for more than a decade and not improve his life must be a failure.

In the novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, a character named Randle McMurphy also portrayed as crazy angry man( just like Yodder ) who is sent to Oregon asylum, instead of being sent to prison.  He loves to drink and gamble, he has a bad temper and also has been charged with statutory rape, for these reasons he was not acceptable for society and was put into a mental health center.  At the asylum he is considered a dangerous mental patient,who actually just wanted to have a good time. He never got out, he died in his bed, because he was unacceptable for society. In the US alone, about 22,000 people are held against their will in state psychiatric hospitals.

Word 1: Justifiably

a.Doctor's who have  had sessions with him have found no evidence of psychosis bur only a justifiably angry man.
b. Justifiably: adjective; able to be shown to be right or reasonable; defensible.
ORIGIN: early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘justiciable’): from French, from justifier ‘to justify.’
c.He gave me a justifiable reason to start writing blogs.


Word 2: Allegedly
a. He has allegedly written scores of letters to public figures that talk of slaughtering them in dreadful ways. 
b. Adverb;used to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place.Origin 1870-75
c. He allegedly ran 50 kilometers up and back down  a hill, in less than one hour.


Word 3: Offences
a. Yodder is not is prison for these offenses but at a hospital.
b. A breach of a law or rule; an illegal act,ORIGIN: late Middle English: from Old French offens ‘misdeed,’ from Latin offensus ‘annoyance,’ reinforced by French offense, from Latin offensa ‘a striking against, a hurt, or displeasure’; based on Latin offendere ‘strike against.’
c.He was offensive in his speech.

All word origions taken from
  http://www.dictionary.reference.com/