Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide

By Vivian Shnaidman

Book Overview

Lawyers frequently encounter clients and/or cases of bizarre behavior, mental illness, substance abuse, psychopathy, sexual offenses, learning disorders, birth defects, and other behavioral and emotional issues. Often they are ill-prepared to understand the nature of the psychiatric report, how the psychiatric assessment was structured, and how to best utilize and challenge these reports in court.Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide provides legal professionals the tools to identify mentally ill clients and help them navigate through the psychiatric information and language in reports and testimony. Topics include why a forensic psychiatrist is necessary, applications of psychiatry to law, various psychiatric disorders, and utilizing the expert witness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128028521
• ISBN13: 9780128028520
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.6" x 9.4"