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Use of a controversial psychopathy test is skyrocketing in court, even as mounting evidence suggests that the prejudicial instrument is ...

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Ambitious "paradigm shift" fizzles  By now, you've seen the bad press about the American Psychiatric Association's new d...

If you haven't been following the sexual assault scandals in the U.S. military, tune in: It’s yet another arena where bogus psychiatric ...

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I am excited to announce that the American Psychology-Law Society has accepted a panel that I put together on " Emergent controversies...

To hear government experts on the witness stand in civil detention trials in recent months, the novel diagnosis of "hebephilia" wa...

Will American Psychiatric Association heed professional consensus? Twenty years ago, Humbert Humbert went to prison for a series of s...