Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Mon 31 AugPAPER

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AN EPISTEMOLOGY FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY.

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A thoughtful framing of how an evaluator should reason from inquiry to a defensible opinion, useful for teaching and for articulating the basis of testimony on cross-examination. But it reports no empirical finding, changes no legal standard, and imposes no obligation; nothing an examiner does or asserts on Monday is different because of it.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2026.