Research Catalog

Title

Mastering forensic psychiatric practice : advanced strategies for the expert witness / Thomas G. Gutheil, Robert I. Simon.

Author

Gutheil, Thomas G.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., c2002.

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Additional Authors

Simon, Robert I.

Description

xix, 150 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Focusing on the privately retained practitioner within the civil context of America's legal system, this incomparable reference examines forensic practice from basics to trial, covering case preparation, fee agreements and finances (including model fee agreement guidelines), attorney-expert relations (such previously taboo topics as use of the expert's name without consent--i.e., the "phantom expert"--and attorney pressures on the expert witness), the pitfalls of cross-examination, and issues in forensic countertransference. Extensively annotated and indexed, this unique volume also features vignettes of real-life ethical dilemmas that defy clear resolution, such as the misuse of research funds, sexual misconduct, and malpractice.

Subject

• Expert Testimony > methods
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Evidence, Expert
• Forensic psychiatry
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction and basics -- Expert's task -- Practical matters -- Practical aspects of the forensic examination -- Model consent form -- Boundary issues in case preparation with attorneys -- Fee agreements and finances in forensic practice: theoretical and empirical dimensions -- Model fee agreement guidelines -- Problem areas in attorney-expert relations -- Attorneys' pressures on the expert witness: early warning signs and empirical study of endangered honesty and objectivity -- Phantom expert: use of an expert's name or alleged testimony without consent as a legal strategy -- Forensic countertransference -- Issues in forensic countertransference: early warning signs of compromised distance and objectivity -- Problems with deposition and trial testimony -- Personal questions on cross-examination: a pilot study of expert witness attitudes -- Telling tales out of court: experts' disclosures about opposing experts -- Effects of the Daubert case on preparing psychiatric/psychological testimony for court -- Ethical issues -- Some ethical dilemmas -- American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law ethical guidelines for the practice of forensic psychiatry.

ISBN

1585620076 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001056176

OCLC

• 48434888
• SCSB-10194554

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library