Liability for the Psychiatrist Expert Witness
Professor Renee Binder, MD, former Acting Chairman, Department of Psychiatry UCSF, former President American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law and Chief of the Forensic Psychiatric Fellowship Program at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, has written an excellent and comprehensive article discussing the various liabilities that a psychiatrist testifying as a forensic psychiatric expert may encounter. The article was published in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Association and can be downloaded in pdf format by clicking on the image below:
Liability for Psychiatrists As Expert Witnesses