Psychiatry in law/law in psychiatry
By: Ralph Slovenko
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 783
ISBN-13: 9780203886168; 9780415994910
Subjects: Forensic Medicine; Forensic Psychiatry; MEDICAL; Forensic psychiatry; Legal status, laws; Psychiatrists
Description: Offers an examination of the infiltration of psychiatry into law and the growing intervention of law into psychiatry. This title is suitable for psychiatry residents, law students, and practitioners.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: THE INTERMIX OF PSYCHIATRY AND LAW; PSYCHIATRY IN LAW; PART I: Expert Testimony; Chapter 1. Experts in the Adversary System; Chapter 2. Obligations and Responsibilities; Chapter 3. Restrictions on Expert Testimony; Chapter 4. Holding the Expert Accountable; PART II: Evidentiary Issues; Chapter 5. Testimonial Privilege; Chapter 6. Witness and the Credibility of Testimony; Chapter 7. Propensity and Other Acts of Evidence; Chapter 8. Syndrome Evidence; Chapter 9. The Role of Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Law; PART III: Criminal Cases.