" To hell with all psychiatry! You have brains, gentlemen of the jury. Be your own psychiatrist.
Apply your own common sense." Thus a member of the New York bar fulminated against two …

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should
never trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the …

The domestic tranquility of the law and forensic psychiatry has been disturbed recently by an
escalated request that psychiatric experts be excluded from court trials. Still, separation of …

This article is a small but sincere tribute to my absent friend, Harold Solomon. The topic is
one in which he was deeply interested. Having discussed with him the psychiatrist's role in …

The legal profession long has acknowledged the need for expert witnesses in the legal
determination of mental illness and allied conditions. Courts and attorneys have made …

I will speak today about another knife that cuts two ways: psychiatry in the legal process.
Much has been written about one cutting edge: the contributions made by psychiatry. I will …

The evils growing out of the so-called insanity defense have too long constituted a problem
for both the legal profession and the public, and, noting modem developments in …

The topic to which I would invite your attention is not one which can be truly said to be novel;
it is one, indeed, which has attracted many thinkers and one over which many a wordy battle …

N topic in American psychiatry is more controversial than the relation-ship of psychiatry to
law, and none more emotionally freighted when discussed. Ranging from heated argu …

HAT THERE EXIST certain basic conflicts between current understanding of the
psychodynamics of human behavior and some of the assumptions underlying jurisprudence …