41. Christianson of Au Pair USA called pedophilia a " horrible mental disease " but " very, very rare ." 42. Is the a mental disease characterized by penury ? talk ) 10 : 53, 27 April 2010 ( UTC) 43. Mental retardation, unlike insanity or other mental disease , does not mean a defendant cannot be held responsible for the crime. 44. Sept . 10 : Dahmer pleads innocent and innocent by reason of mental disease or defect to 15 murder counts. 45. What emerges clearly from them is that he labored under a serious mental disease , and that he was conscious of it. 46. McCabe noted that the state already has acknowledged a major mitigating factor by conceding Yates suffered from a severe mental disease . 47. In some states, a defendant who has raised the defense of mental disease or defect will automatically create a bifurcated trial. 48. Weisskopf told the audience at MIT . He also called the Cold War " a collective mental disease of mankind ." 49. At the wheel, his alarm that he might be suffering symptoms of mental disease led him, indeed, to a fresh escape. 50. The subject is a rich one, telling as much about the anxieties of society as about the nature of mental disease .