ABSTRACT
The standard assumption is that a well-adjusted person has the skills to cope with overwhelming or adverse conditions triggered by a variety of life events. Confronted with a crisis, someone who previously seemed to have functioned in a well-adjusted way could suddenly display an aberrant behavior in his attempts to cope with those overpowering circumstances. Perez-Olivo, a criminal lawyer by profession, recently disbarred for misconduct, and apparently without any steady source of income decided to get rid of his wife to obtain the insurance money. It was a desperate solution to his pressing financial troubles. The problem is that not all people have been able to discard the old set of social values in favor of the new social-political norms of conduct. There is a second category of people whose concept of conformity-normalcy becomes extremely confused when they are in a conflict with the government's political policies.
