Hebephilia flunks Frye test

Photo credit: NY Law Journal In a strongly worded rejection of hebephilia, a New York judge has ruled that the controversial diagnosis cann...

New evidence of psychopathy test's poor accuracy in court

Use of a controversial psychopathy test is skyrocketing in court, even as mounting evidence suggests that the prejudicial instrument is hi...

DSM-5: Forensic applications (Part II of II)

Courts cling to DSM as "bible" As alluded to yesterday, in Part I , mental health professionals know not to take the DSM (or the I...

DSM-5: Much ado about nothing? (Part I of II)

Ambitious "paradigm shift" fizzles  By now, you've seen the bad press about the American Psychiatric Association's new dia...

Military sexual assault scandal unearths "illegal" psychiatric diagnoses

If you haven't been following the sexual assault scandals in the U.S. military, tune in: It’s yet another arena where bogus psychiatric ...

Diagnostic controversies: Registration open for my Hawaii workshop

A shameless plug for my upcoming training workshop in Honolulu, sponsored by the American Psychological Association. CE's in paradise; w...

Upcoming trainings: Assessment; personal injury; sexual violence; ethics in diagnosis

If you are planning to be in or around Florida, New Jersey, Hawaii or London over the next few months, here are some recommended forensic tr...

Training: Controversies in sexually violent predator evaluations

I am excited to announce that the American Psychology-Law Society has accepted a panel that I put together on " Emergent controversies...

APA rejects "hebephilia," last standing of three novel sexual disorders

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

Forensic psychiatrists reject hebephilia - yet again!

Will American Psychiatric Association heed professional consensus? Twenty years ago, Humbert Humbert went to prison for a series of sexual a...