This study examines work-related stress among American trial judges using a relational model
of stress, which emphasizes an individual's appraisals in a personsituation relationship. A …

If psychological evaluations of criminal defendants could be performed in the community on
an outpatient basis rather than in a distant state hospital on an inpatient basis, substantial …

Traditionally psychiatry and its teaching regarding psychotherapeutic technique have
centered around the classical aspects of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented long-…

Given the immense importance and significance of the roles judges play in the American
system of justice, it is disturbing to realize how little information actually exists about them. The …

In the 1923 case of Frye v. United States,'the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
first articulated the test that became the standard for the admissibility of scientific opinion …

By requiring the states to individualize the capital sentencing process, the Supreme Court
has opened the door to routine participation by psychiatric (or other clinical) experts. This …

This report describes a case of primary hyperparathyroidism in a 68-year-old man. The
endocrine disorder, while suspected before the commission of homicide and attempted murder, …

In its landmark opinion in Ake v. Oklahoma, the United States Supreme Court enunciated a
broad right to psychiatric assistance for criminal defendants who raise the defense of insanity …

This paper identifies unique properties of a patient's psychiatric record, emphasizing
particularly the elements of clinician-patient transference and countertransference which can …

Drawing on the clincalliterature and the case records and videotape library of the Forensic
Psychiatry Clinic of the University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, we …