The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom

Selected Papers of Bernard L. Diamond, M.D.
Herausgeber: Quen, Jacques M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the course of an illustrious career, the late Bernard Diamond established himself as the preeminent forensic psychiatrist of the century. Indeed, not since Isaac Ray founded the discipline of forensic psychiatry in this country over 150 years ago ha

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 169mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780881631609
• ISBN-10: 0881631604
• Artikelnr.: 22260348

Autorenporträt

Jacques M. Quen

Inhaltsangabe

Bibliography of Bernard L. Diamond. Editor's Introduction. Psychoanalysis
in the Courtroom. The Origins and Development of the "Wild Beast" Concept
of Mental Illness and Its Relation to Theories of Criminal Responsibility.
The Origins of the "Right and Wrong" Test of Criminal Responsibility and
Its Subsequent Development in the United States: An Historical Survey.
Criminal Responsibility of the Mentally Ill. With Malice Aforethought. The
Psychiatric Prediction of Dangerousness. The Simulation of Sanity. Inherent
Problems in the Use of Pretrial Hypnosis on a Prospective Witness.
Reasonable Medical Certainty, Diagnostic Thresholds, and Definitions of
Mental Illness in the Legal Context. The Fallacy of the Impartial Expert.
The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness. From M'Naghten to Currens, and Beyond.