1. On the morning of June 20, 2001, Texas mother Andrea Yates drowned her five children ion the bathtub, then calmly called her husband to tell him he should come home. At Yates' trial, both the defense and prosecution agree that Yates was mentally ill at the time of the murders, yet the jury still found her guilty and sentenced her to life in prison. (An appellate court later overturned this conviction. In 2006, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital in which she will be held until she is no longer deemed at threat).
If you had been on the jury in Andrea Yate's case, would you have found her guilty? Why or why not?
Secondly, why do you think the insanity plea is rarely successful?
2. Here is a tough technical question for you. Pick either psychoanalysis or the humanistic theory of therapy and state the basic assumptions underlying either one of them. What does free association and analyze the resistance mean, or what are the four qualities of client-therapist communication advocated by Rogers? What behavior are these types of therapy trying to change?