Vol.IX #4 - Two Cases Of Threatened Murder

Simillimum - Winter 1996

Alice Likowski Duncan, D.C.

The two reports that follow describe "acute" situations in which the chief complaint was a strong desire to kill. Obviously, this type of problem can't be approached as simply and directly as an acute like diarrhea or epistaxis or ankle pain... But both of these men had come to see me at other people's urging, so there wasn't really time for long and searching interview or study of the case. Still, I'd been acquainted with both of these patients for several years (one was my chiropractic patient; the other a patient's father) so I had a basic idea of who they were, which helped in the choice of remedies.

CASE ONE TS, a man in his early 40's A building contractor and carpenter