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Title

Retrospective assessment of mental states in litigation : predicting the past / edited by Robert I. Simon, Daniel W. Shuman.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Simon, Robert I.
• Shuman, Daniel W.

Description

xxiii, 471 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book explores the role of the psychiatrist or psychologist, as an expert witness in litigation, in rendering a retrospective judgment of an individual's mental state. In this book, distinguished contributors apply their expertise in psychiatry, psychology, and law to the problems of retrospective assessment, with the goal of developing guidelines for more accurate retrospective evaluations of mental states."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Forensic psychiatry
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Mental Competency
• Retrospective Studies
• Risk Assessment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Retrospective assessment of mental states in criminal and civil litigation : a clinical review / Robert I. Simon -- Retrospective assessment of mental states and the law / Daniel W. Shuman -- What can we ever know about the past? : a philosophical consideration of the assessment of retrospective mental states / John Z. Sadler -- Assessment of mental state at the time of the criminal offense : the forensic examination / Thomas G. Gutheil -- Retrospective assessment of malingering in insanity defense cases / Phillip J. Resnick, Michael R. Harris -- Murder, suicide, accident, or natural death? : assessment of suicide risk factors at the time of death / Robert I. Simon -- Retrospective assessment of children's mental states / Nancy E. Walker -- The past as prologue : assessment of future violence in individuals with a history of past violence / Kenneth Tardiff -- Evaluating mental states without the benefit of a direct examination : basic concepts and ethical and legal implications / Roy B. Lacoursiere, Glen Weissenberger, A.J. Stephani -- Validating retrospective assessments : an overview of research models / Richard Rogers -- What can psychologists contribute to the examination of memory and past mental states? / Amina Memon, Sarah E. Henderson -- Psychiatric diagnoses and the retrospective assessment of mental states / Liza H. Gold -- Special methodologies in memory retrieval : chemical, hypnotic, and imagery procedures / Alan W. Scheflin, Daniel Brown, Edward J. Frischholz -- Competence and mental impairment / Daniel W. Shuman -- Remembering the future : policy implications for the forensic assessment of past mental states / Daniel W. Shuman, Robert I. Simon.

ISBN

1585620017 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001045873

OCLC

47892828

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library