- Two weeks after Johnny Moore was discharged from a psychiatric hospital, the deeply troubled teenager took a lethal overdose of the antidepressant prescribed by his psychiatrist.

- Dennis Gould suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He let a streetcar cut off his right arm rather than carry out his divine mission to kill his ex-girlfriend, Shelley Rotman; three years later--while under psychiatric care and after several hospitalizations--Gould stabbed the young woman to death with his left arm.

- After seven months of psychotherapy as his only treatment in a private...