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- catalog abstract "Lawyers often refer to them as "prostitutes" or "whores." They are the growing ranks of clinical psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals who give expert testimony in our courtrooms today. And in far too many cases their testimony - on subjects as varied as determination of competency, dangerousness, parental fitness, custody, personal injury, memory, sentencing, and rehabilitation - helps determine the final verdict. Now, in. This provocative and well-researched book, Margaret Hagen, Ph. D., reveals how expert psychological testimony is a total fraud, showing how the courts have increasingly embraced not a cutting-edge science but, instead, a discipline that represents a terrifying retreat into fantasy and hearsay; a discipline propelled by powerful propaganda, arrogance, and greed. There are now thousands of self-styled soul doctors running amok in our courts, bedazzled by spectacular fees. And wielding unchecked power and influence in the courtroom.".
- catalog contributor b10162120.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "And wielding unchecked power and influence in the courtroom.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-332) and index.".
- catalog description "Lawyers often refer to them as "prostitutes" or "whores." They are the growing ranks of clinical psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals who give expert testimony in our courtrooms today. And in far too many cases their testimony - on subjects as varied as determination of competency, dangerousness, parental fitness, custody, personal injury, memory, sentencing, and rehabilitation - helps determine the final verdict. Now, in.".
- catalog description "This provocative and well-researched book, Margaret Hagen, Ph. D., reveals how expert psychological testimony is a total fraud, showing how the courts have increasingly embraced not a cutting-edge science but, instead, a discipline that represents a terrifying retreat into fantasy and hearsay; a discipline propelled by powerful propaganda, arrogance, and greed. There are now thousands of self-styled soul doctors running amok in our courts, bedazzled by spectacular fees.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 338 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0060391979".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : ReganBooks,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1997 E-879".
- catalog subject "347.73/67 21".
- catalog subject "Evidence, Expert United States.".
- catalog subject "Expert Testimony United States.".
- catalog subject "Forensic Psychiatry United States.".
- catalog subject "Forensic psychiatry United States.".
- catalog subject "Forensic psychology United States.".
- catalog subject "Jurisprudence United States.".
- catalog subject "KF8965 .H34 1997".
- catalog subject "W 740 H143w 1997".
- catalog title "Whores of the court : the fraud of psychiatric testimony and the rape of American justice / Margaret A. Hagen.".
- catalog type "text".