Abstract
A 44-year-old man was treated with amitriptyline by his general practitioner for ‘mild depression’. Shortly after starting treatment he was said to have become ‘beserk’; he hit his wife and a family friend with an iron bar and attempted to sever their heads with a kitchen knife. He was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of substantially diminished responsibility and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cited by
3 articles.
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