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Emotional Damages Episode 7 Recap: Understanding PTSD in the Courtroom: Insights from Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. James Armontrout

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most commonly cited psychiatric diagnoses in emotional damages litigation—but evaluating trauma in a forensic context requires far more than a diagnosis. In this episode of Emotional Damages, Dr. Ambarin Faizi speaks with forensic psychiatrist Dr. James Armontrout, program director of the Stanford Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship and trauma specialist at fpamed. Drawing on years of experience treating veterans at the VA Palo Alto Trauma Recovery Program and evaluating claimants in multi-plaintiff cases, Dr. Armontrout discusses what attorneys need to know when working on PTSD-related claims. From assessing symptom validity to understanding treatment trajectories, this episode is a masterclass in trauma-informed forensic evaluation.

A New Study Confirms Old Knowledge: Psychotherapy Works for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

By James Armontrout, MD fpamed Forensic Psychiatrist When people think about psychotherapy often the image of years of weekly meetings with slow-paced and hard-won improvements comes to mind. While this can be the case for some conditions, many newer psychotherapies for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can often achieve remarkable results in a time-limited fashion. For example, […]

Current Regulation of Mobile Mental Health Applications

James A. Armontrout, MD, John Torous, MD, Marsha Cohen, JD, Dale E. McNiel, PhD, and Renée Binder, MD — The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law — In recent years, the availability of software that is targeted toward the general public and designed to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of […]