forensic psychiatry

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the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.

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Forensic tests showed the birds died after becoming coated in sludge, Hubbard said.
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Turning from biblical interpretation to psychiatry, the actor added, “I think the man was likely schizophrenic.”
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To what extent was the testimony the grand jury heard corroborated or contradicted by forensic evidence?
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A July 2013 JAMA Psychiatry study found an increased risk of suicide in military personnel with more lifetime TBIs.
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The doctors promise that the initiative will “disarm the boundaries between psychiatry, humanities, and hip-hop culture.”
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He had a vanity easily lacerated, and he was now too savage to abate the ferocity of his forensic attack.
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The word monomania has been an unfortunate one for scientific psychiatry, because it has been abused to shield criminals.
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But it was in forensic eloquence that Cicero was pre-eminent, in which he had but one equal in ancient times.
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I shall enter my appearance in the forensic costume of wig and gown.
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forensic psychiatry

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The branch of psychiatry that makes determinations, as regarding fitness to stand trial, the need for commitment, or responsibility for criminal behavior, in a court of law.

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