Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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RETHINKING "OBJECTIVITY" FOR 21ST CENTURY FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY.

— STAFF

Objectivity is the norm forensic psychiatrists invoke to justify their reports and defend them under cross-examination, and a specialty-journal reconsideration of that norm is relevant to how examiners describe their own role; on the metadata alone, however, the argument, its scope, and whether it disturbs anything in current practice cannot be determined.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2026;54(3):282-289.