A confusion of tongues: Competence, insanity, psychiatry, and the law

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 767-773

  Gutheil, Thomas G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; EXPERT SYSTEM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL LIABILITY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; STANDARD;

EID: 0033038681     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.50.6.767     Document Type: Article

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