Psychiatric disability determinations and personal injury litigation

Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 2Ed

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 260-272

  Metzner, Jeffrey L ^a   Buck, James B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b McCrea and Buck LLC   (United States)

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