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Challenging the Insanity Defense

Viviana Alvarez-Toro and Alexander Westphal
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online March 2020, 48 (1) 121-123; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.3932L2-20
Viviana Alvarez-Toro
Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry
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vol. 48 no. 1 121-123
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https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.3932L2-20

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  • Published online March 6, 2020.

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  1. Viviana Alvarez-Toro, MD
  1. Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry
  1. Alexander Westphal, MD, PhD
  1. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  2. Law and Psychiatry Division
    Department of Psychiatry
    Yale School of Medicine
    New Haven, Connecticut

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