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Forensic psychiatry

Here are entered works on psychiatry as applied in courts of law.

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Broader terms:

Related term:

Mentally ill offenders

Narrower term:

Traumatic neuroses

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Forensic psychiatry -- Law and legislation

Filed under: Forensic psychiatry

Des Maladies Mentales, Considérées Sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal (2 text volumes and an atlas, in French; Paris and London: J.-B. Ballière, 1838), by Etienne Esquirol (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (ca. 2008), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; Falls Church, VA: Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army; Fort Detrick, MD: Borden Institute, 2011), ed. by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (PDF files at Borden Institute)
Leaders' Manual for Combat Stress Control (FM 22-51, 1994), by United States Army (HTML at army.mil)

Filed under: Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction

Sergeant Back Again (30th anniversary edition, c2009), by Charles A. Coleman (HTML and PDF with commentary at sergeantbackagain.com)

Filed under: Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment

Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival: The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Michael Dorland
- PDF at Brandeis
- PDF files at Project MUSE

Filed under: Post-traumatic stress disorder -- United States

Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

Filed under: War neuroses

War Psychiatry (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1995), ed. by Franklin D. Jones, Linette R. Sparacino, Victoria L. Wilcox, Joseph M. Rothberg, and James W. Stokes (PDF files at Borden Institute)
Shell Shock and Its Lessons (1917), by Grafton Elliot Smith and T. H. Pear
- HTML at gwpda.org
- HTML at vlib.us

Filed under: War neuroses -- Fiction

The Return of the Soldier (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by Rebecca West (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Filed under: War neuroses -- Prevention

Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; Falls Church, VA: Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army; Fort Detrick, MD: Borden Institute, 2011), ed. by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (PDF files at Borden Institute)

Filed under: War neuroses -- United States

Men Under Stress (Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1945), by Roy R. Grinker and John P. Spiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

Filed under: Mentally ill offenders

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry (Criminal Science Monograph #2; 1916), by Bernard Glueck (Gutenberg text)
The Day They Scrambled My Brains at the Funny Factory (1977), by Max Rabinowitz (HTML at maxraven.com)

Filed under: Mentally ill offenders -- Great Britain

Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)

Filed under: Medical jurisprudence

Identifying Plant Food Cells in Gastric Contents For Use in Forensic Investigations: A Laboratory Manual (Washington: National Institute of Justice, 1988), by Jane H. Bock, Meredith A. Lane, and David O. Norris
- page images at HathiTrust
- PDF with commentary at ojp.gov
The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence (second edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1873), by Alfred Swaine Taylor
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
A Text-Book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology (2 volumes; Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders and Co., 1903-1904), ed. by Frederick Peterson and Walter S. Haines

Filed under: Forensic genetics -- Congresses

DNA Technology in Forensic Science (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

Filed under: Medical jurisprudence -- Periodicals

Journal of Forensic Sciences (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Forensic genetics -- United States -- Case studies

Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1996), by Edward F. Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller, and J. Thomas McEwen (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Paternity testing -- United States -- Case studies

Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter (2001), by Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission
- PDF files at waybackmachine.org
- PDF files at archive.org

Filed under: Forensic genetics

Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- page images at HathiTrust
- PDF files at Princeton

Filed under: DNA fingerprinting

Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- page images at HathiTrust
- PDF files at Princeton

Filed under: DNA fingerprinting -- Congresses

DNA Technology in Forensic Science (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

Filed under: DNA fingerprinting -- Technological innovations -- United States

Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003: Report (Rept. 108-321 Part 1; no further parts known to be published; 2003), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
- text and PDF at congress.gov
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: DNA fingerprinting -- United States