Facilitation of Mourning During Childhood
Here you will meet several children helped by Cornerstone who suffered from tragic losses and tragic circumstances. This chapter is essentially practical in its orientation to technique, describing several forms of treatment of bereaved children, with a minimum of theoretical essay. Probably the best definition of "mourning" for our current purposes is, "the totality of reaction to the loss of a loved object."
Psychiatry: A Psych Tale
Once upon a time, there was a shark...I mean a lawyer...who loved to chew up the opposition. One day, he stopped in mid-chew and asked himself, "Why?" Was it to make his client happy? To make a lot of money? To make sure justice was upheld? Yes, it was all of these, but he couldn't help feeling there was more.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: The Cornerstone Treatment of a Preschool Boy from an Extremely Impoverished Environment
Monroe was the kind of child from whom usually little is expected therapeutically. A member of a disadvantaged ethnic minority, he lived in the poverty of a big-city slum ghetto...
How Child Psychiatric Testimony Works
The legal system and juries customarily weigh evidence more regularly than the psychoanalytic profession.
Assessing Emotional Damages in Multi-Plaintiff Litigation
An hour earlier, a commuter train with 180 passengers struck a sport utility vehicle left on the tracks-an aborted suicide attempt. The parking lot adjacent to the tracks is filled with people dazed and confused.
Testifying in Contested Custody Litigation
Testifying in court or at deposition is a challenging and at times, disconcerting experience even for the seasoned expert.
How to Read a Psychiatric Report
All psychiatric reports evaluate something, but not always the same thing. For example, eligibility for benefits, or fitness to do a job. To make sense of the report, the reader must determine what is being evaluated and how it is being done
The Therapist as Expert Witness? Reasons the Treating Psychotherapist Should Not Be the Expert Witness
In civil cases where emotional distress is alleged, it often occurs that the plaintiff’s attorney designates the treater as his expert. Usually the argument is that the plaintiff’s own therapist has spent many more hours with the plaintiff than the defense expert and therefore "knows" the plaintiff better. The treater often agrees with this reasoning
Assessing Civil Competence
Practicing psychiatrists are not often asked to assess their patients’ mental capacity (competence) to perform ordinary contractual tasks, such as selling a house, signing into the hospital, or making decisions about their own medical care, among a host of other functions
Quantifying The Cognitive Aspects Of Mental Illness In The Forensic Patient
This section will discuss those neurophysiological (e.g.-physical tests) and neuropsychological measurements that are often used by mental health professionals to assess and measure an individual's overall cognitive function, particularly in the realm of the capacity to form specific criminal intent
