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Forensic psychiatry

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

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• Medical jurisprudence
• Psychiatry

• Mentally ill offenders

• Forensic psychiatry -- Periodicals
• Traumatic neuroses

• Forensic psychiatry -- Law and legislation

• 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)

• Archivos de Criminología, Medicina Legal y Psiquiatría (in Spanish; 1902) (full serial archives)

• 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)

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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

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

• 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)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sanford J. Fox (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Journal of Forensic Sciences (partial serial archives)
• The Medico-Legal Journal (New York, 1883-1933) (partial serial archives)

• The Medico-Legal Journal (New York, 1883-1933) (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)

• 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)

• Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014), ed. by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett (PDF with commenary at oapen.org)

• Theory and Practice of Psychiatry (St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1936), by William S. Sadler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual (second edition; London: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2018), by Vikram Patel and Charlotte Hanlon (PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• 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)
• A Treatise on Insanity (Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd for Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1806), by Philippe Pinel, trans. by D. D. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Galen on the Passions and Errors of the Soul (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1963), by Galen, ed. by Walther Riese, trans. by Paul W. Harkins (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual (second edition; London: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2018), by Vikram Patel and Charlotte Hanlon (PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• Social Order, Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Andrew T. Scull (HTML at UC Press)

• Annals of General Psychiatry (partial serial archives)
• Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry / Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria (partial serial archives)
• Comprehensive Psychiatry (partial serial archives)
• Indian Journal of Psychiatry (partial serial archives)
• BMC Psychiatry (2001-) (full serial archives)
• Frontiers in Psychiatry (2010-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (1991-) (full serial archives)
• The American Journal of Psychiatry (partial serial archives)
• Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (partial serial archives)
• The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery (partial serial archives)
• L'Evolution Psychiatrique (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (partial serial archives)
• The American Journal of Insanity (full serial archives)
• Archivos de Psiquiatría y Criminología (in Spanish; 1903-1913) (full serial archives)
• L'Informateur des Aliénistes et des Neurologistes (full serial archives)
• Medical Critic and Psychological Journal (full serial archives)
• L'Hygiène Mentale (partial serial archives)
• Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry (partial serial archives)
• L'Encéphale (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Alienist and Neurologist (full serial archives)
• Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Mental Science (partial serial archives)
• The Asylum Journal of Mental Science (full serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.