9/27/2011· Psychiatry
How Child Psychiatric Testimony Works
The legal system and juries customarily weigh evidence more regularly than the psychoanalytic profession.
9/27/2011· Psychiatry
How Child Psychiatric Testimony Works
The legal system and juries customarily weigh evidence more regularly than the psychoanalytic profession.
8/23/2011· Psychiatry
Assessing Emotional Damages in Multi-Plaintiff Litigation
By: Dr. Mark Levy
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.
2/15/2011· Psychiatry
Testifying in Contested Custody Litigation
Testifying in court or at deposition is a challenging and at times, disconcerting experience even for the seasoned expert.
3/25/2010· Forensic Psychiatry
Competency To Make A Will: Testamentary Capacity / Undue Influence
Wills are generally contested either on the grounds that the testator lacked Testamentary Capacity (was incompetent to make a will at the time of signing it) or the testator, because of his/her mental state, was subject to Undue Influence (i.e. if there is evidence of coercion, manipulation, deception, compulsion, intimidation, etc.) or an Undue Influence secondary to a thought disturbance (such as delusions affecting the testator's free will in making decisions).
5/28/2009· Psychiatry
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
5/28/2009· Human Factors
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
by Douglas E. Noll, Esq
by Edward J. Priz, Scott Priz
by Ray Horak, Harry Newton, Mark A. Miller