The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbool of Forensic Psychiatry

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This comprehensive textbook of forensic psychiatry is aimed at the general psychiatrist or psychologist who does not specialize in forensic work. The need for such a text, Drs. Simon and Gold explain, is that despite forensic psychiatry’s recently attained status as a subspecialty, "general clinicians still perform the bulk of forensic assessment" (p. xvii).