The Trauma Myth may be one of the most misunderstood books of the past decade. Based on its regrettable title, pedophiles erroneously belie...

John Bradford burst into tears. Hitting the road for the four-hour trek back to his home in Ontario, Canada, he could not stop crying an...

Call for trauma-focused treatment of offenders Children who experience abuse, neglect and family dysfunction have a heightened risk of d...

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

A serial rapist’s attempt to claim insanity based on multiple personality disorder fell flat, as a judge ordered the expert's trial test...

In a long-awaited ruling, a San Diego judge has ruled that indefinite detention of Sexually Violent Predators (SVP’s) is constitutional, eve...

Just about every week, an attorney calls me wanting a client evaluated for PTSD. Virtually everyone in forensic practice has probably seen h...

The whole world seems glued this week to the bizarre case of Josef Fritzl. As you know, Fritzl is the Austrian man who kept his daughter and...

A growing body of research suggests that many of the factors that lead people to confess to crimes that they did not commit are environmenta...

The Battered Women’s Syndrome is gaining acceptance from judges and jurors, according to an article in the May 21 issue of Massachusetts Law...

A new study highlights how easily a traumatic incident can alter brain functioning, and how long that change can last. The researchers studi...

The Washington Post published an article on April 8 by on the invisible head trauma created by the high-powered explosives being used by the...