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Psychiatry in law/law in psychiatry /

041593365X

0415994918

9780415933650

9780415994910

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Psychiatry in law/law in psychiatry /

[Book]

Ralph Slovenko.

2nd ed.

New York :

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

©2009.

xxxii, 783 pages :

form ;

26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Expert testimony -- Experts in the adversary system -- Obligations and responsibilities of lawyers and experts -- Restrictions on Expert testimony -- Holding the expert accountable -- Evidentiary issues -- Testimonial privilege -- Witnesses and the credibility of testimony -- Propensity and other acts of evidence -- Syndrome evidence -- The role of psychiatric diagnosis in the law -- Criminal cases -- Competency to stand trial and other competencies -- Criminal responsibility -- Diminished capacity -- Juvenile justice -- Imposing and carrying out of the Death Penalty -- Measurement of evil -- Sexual deviation -- Sex offender legislation -- Homosexuality: from condemnation to celebration -- Civil cases -- Tort liability of the mentally incompetent and their caretakers -- Posttraumatic stress disorder and workers' compensation -- Duty to minimize damages -- Child custody -- Contractual capacity -- Testamentary capacity -- Hospitalization of the mentally ill -- Civil commitment -- Failure to treat and related issues -- Psychiatric malpractice -- Malpractice, nonmedical negligence, or breach of contract? -- Establishing malpractice liability -- Overview of Psychiatric malpractice -- Admission or apology in liability prevention -- Breach of confidentiality -- Informed consent -- Contributory fault of the patient in a malpractice action -- Boundary violation of undue familiarity -- Experimentation and clinical trials -- Suicide -- Duty of therapists to third parties -- Regulation of the practice of psychotherapy.

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Previous edition published in 2002.

Forensic psychiatry-- United States.

Psychiatrists-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- United States.

Forensic Psychiatry.

Forensic psychiatry.

Psychiatrists-- Legal status, laws, etc.

United States.

United States.

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