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Believing Doesn't Make It So: Forensic Education and the Search for Truth

Charles L. Scott
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online March 2013, 41 (1) 18-32;
Charles L. Scott
Dr. Scott is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Forensic Training Director, Division of Psychiatry and the Law, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA. A version of this paper was presented as the Presidential Address at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 25–28, 2012.
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vol. 41 no. 1 18-32
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23503172

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1093-6793
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  • Published online March 15, 2013.

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  1. Charles L. Scott, MD
  1. Dr. Scott is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Forensic Training Director, Division of Psychiatry and the Law, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA. A version of this paper was presented as the Presidential Address at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 25–28, 2012.
  1. Address correspondence to: Charles L. Scott, MD, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2230 Stockton Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Sacramento, CA 95817. E-mail: charles.scott{at}ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.

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