Preface to the first edition | p. xiii |
Preface to the second edition | p. xv |
List of contributors | p. xvii |
History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry: Robert Weinstock | p. 1 |
A conceptual framework for forensic psychiatry | p. 3 |
Defining forensic psychiatry: roles and responsibilities | p. 7 |
History of forensic psychiatry | p. 14 |
Forensic psychiatric report writing | p. 31 |
Guidelines for courtroom testimony | p. 37 |
Practical issues in forensic psychiatric practice | p. 45 |
Education and training in forensic psychiatry | p. 52 |
Ethical guidelines | p. 56 |
Liability of the forensic psychiatrist | p. 73 |
The death penalty | p. 79 |
Competence assessments | p. 85 |
Psychological autopsy | p. 89 |
Legal Regulation of Psychiatric Practice: Harold I. Schwartz | p. 95 |
Informed consent and competency | p. 97 |
Hospitalization: voluntary and involuntary | p. 107 |
Involuntary civil commitment to outpatient treatment | p. 116 |
The right to treatment | p. 121 |
Treatment refusal in psychiatric practice | p. 129 |
Confidentiality and testimonial privilege | p. 137 |
The duty to protect | p. 147 |
Treatment boundaries in psychiatric practice | p. 156 |
Sexual misconduct in the therapist-patient relationship | p. 165 |
The law and physician illness | p. 173 |
Forensic Evaluation and Treatment in the Criminal Justice System: Robert D. Miller | p. 181 |
Introduction | p. 183 |
Criminal competence | p. 186 |
Criminal responsibility | p. 213 |
Novel mental disorders | p. 233 |
Post-conviction dispositional evaluations | p. 239 |
Civil Law: Stephen Rachlin | p. 247 |
Specific issues in psychiatric malpractice | p. 249 |
Psychiatric disability determinations and personal injury litigation | p. 260 |
Americans with Disabilities Act evaluations | p. 273 |
Sexual harassment | p. 282 |
Trauma-induced psychiatric disorders and civil law | p. 290 |
Neuropsychiatric assessments in toxic exposure litigation | p. 301 |
Civil competencies | p. 308 |
Death, dying, and the law | p. 316 |
Family Law and Domestic Relations: Stephen B. Billick | p. 329 |
Role of the psychiatric evaluator in child custody disputes | p. 331 |
Termination of parental rights and adoption | p. 348 |
Childhood attachment, foster care and placement | p. 366 |
Forensic evaluation of physically and sexually abused children | p. 377 |
Juvenile delinquency | p. 389 |
Posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: clinical and legal issues | p. 396 |
Forensic aspects of suicide and homicide in children and adolescents | p. 407 |
The child as a witness | p. 419 |
Violent adolescent offenders | p. 441 |
Adolescent sexual offenders | p. 455 |
Neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry | p. 463 |
Correctional Psychiatry: Abraham L. Halpern and Ronnie B. Harmon | p. 473 |
The history of correctional psychiatry | p. 475 |
Standards for the delivery of mental health services in a correctional setting | p. 484 |
The structure of correctional mental health services | p. 489 |
Administrative and staffing problems for psychiatric services in correctional and forensic settings | p. 505 |
Issues in the prevention and detection of suicide potential in correctional facilities | p. 513 |
The psychosocial basis of prison riots | p. 519 |
The right to refuse treatment in a criminal law setting | p. 526 |
Psychiatric ethics in the correctional setting | p. 533 |
Special Clinical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry: Robert Weinstock | p. 541 |
Malingering | p. 543 |
Antisocial personality, psychopathy and forensic psychiatry | p. 555 |
Dangerousness | p. 564 |
Violence: causes and non-psychopharmacological treatment | p. 572 |
Pharmacological treatment of violent behaviors | p. 579 |
Violence and epilepsy: an approach to expert testimony | p. 589 |
Brain disease: forensic neuropsychiatric issues | p. 603 |
Forensic neuropsychology | p. 612 |
Psychological and psychiatric measures in forensic practice | p. 621 |
Culture and ethnicity | p. 631 |
Hypnosis and dissociation | p. 638 |
Amnesia, amytal interviews and polygraphy | p. 643 |
Geriatric psychiatry and the law | p. 651 |
Terrorism and forensic psychiatry | p. 661 |
Torture and brainwashing | p. 669 |
Substance abuse and addiction | p. 672 |
Psychopharmacological treatment of sex offenders | p. 685 |
Prosecution of assaultive patients | p. 699 |
Treatment of sex offenders | p. 705 |
Sexually violent predator laws | p. 717 |
Brain imaging | p. 724 |
Stalking | p. 728 |
Head trauma: a practical approach to the evaluation of symptom exaggeration | p. 736 |
Psychiatric abuse in North America | p. 741 |
Actuarial methods for violence and sex-offender risk assessments | p. 750 |
ERISA, healthcare and the courts | p. 756 |
Basic Issues in Law: Robert Lloyd Goldstein | p. 761 |
The philosophy of law and the foundations (sources) of law | p. 763 |
The court system and the legislative process | p. 769 |
A model of constitutional adjudication: the equal protection doctrine | p. 774 |
An introduction to tort law | p. 780 |
An introduction to civil procedure | p. 789 |
An introduction to criminal procedure | p. 796 |
Punishment | p. 804 |
Legal research on the Web | p. 811 |
Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry: Howard Owens | p. 817 |
Introduction | p. 819 |
Civil law and family law cases in forensic psychiatry | p. 820 |
Criminal law and forensic psychiatry | p. 831 |
Legal regulation of psychiatry | p. 850 |
Index | p. 877 |
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