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| Linda |
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Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of
American Justice
January 13, 1997 Publishers Weekly, Review of Whores of the Court. . .
"Boston University psychology professor, Margaret A. Hagen, delivers a
damning indictment of the psychologizing - and undermining - of the American
legal system through judges' and juries' reliance on the well-paid testimony
of self-styled psychological experts. Spouting what often amounts to
unscientific, unsubstantiated psychobabble, these 'whores of the court,'she
charges, be they psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists or others,
often determine whether murderers and rapists are competent to stand trial,
whether a batterer will be viewed as likely to offend again after receiving
therapy, whether a person experienced mental injury at the hand of a
neighbor or an unfeeling institution, whether recovered memories of alleged
traumas are genuine. With righteous wrath and devastating wit, Hagen
punctures the inflated claims of much expert testimony. She blames liberal
and feminist lawyers and apologist psychologists for what she claims is the
courts' tendency to exonerate perpetrators of crimes on the grounds that
they are victims of mental illness, dysfunctional families or economically
disadvantaged backgrounds. This sweeping critique should stir national
debate."
Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of
American Justice (Hardcover)
by Margaret A. Hagen (Author)
(7 customer reviews)
15 Feb 2007, 13:43
Psychiatrists on death list
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1645146.ece
(People convicted on the basis of testimony of
forensic psychiatrists created a death list consisting of 4 forensic
psychiatrists and a prison warden.)
"It started in 1998. Several of those at Ila were furious. They felt
humiliated by the forensic psychiatrists. The legal observations were
interpreted as made to order jobs for the police,"
http://echo.forensicpanel.com/1997/12/1/hiredgun.html
Hired Guns
"Dr. Thomas Gutheil is the co-director of the Program in Psychiatry and Law
at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. In his recently published book,
he writes that a hired gun "is an expert witness who sells testimony instead
of time." (See The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness 6 (1997)). Dr. Bruce
Danto, a forensic psychiatrist from Los Angeles, echoes the provocative tag
of Maureen Hagen, author of Whores of the Court. "They are whores," he
asserts.
In essence, a hired gun is retained to go into court to knock out the
opposing sides case. Some guns are paid with money, some with the rewards of
advancing their own professional niches; others exploit the soapbox of the
witness stand to advance their political agenda in the psychiatry-law
interface. The hired gun provides anything but the unbiased, impassive
testimony courts purport to seek to clarify the science."
{....}
"Hired guns are well known to colleagues, who nevertheless maintain
omerta...."
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Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of
American Justice
January 13, 1997 Publishers Weekly, Review of Whores of the Court. . .
"Boston University psychology professor, Margaret A. Hagen, delivers a
damning indictment of the psychologizing - and undermining - of the American
legal system through judges' and juries' reliance on the well-paid testimony
of self-styled psychological experts. Spouting what often amounts to
unscientific, unsubstantiated psychobabble, these 'whores of the court,'she
charges, be they psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists or others,
often determine whether murderers and rapists are competent to stand trial,
whether a batterer will be viewed as likely to offend again after receiving
therapy, whether a person experienced mental injury at the hand of a
neighbor or an unfeeling institution, whether recovered memories of alleged
traumas are genuine. With righteous wrath and devastating wit, Hagen
punctures the inflated claims of much expert testimony. She blames liberal
and feminist lawyers and apologist psychologists for what she claims is the
courts' tendency to exonerate perpetrators of crimes on the grounds that
they are victims of mental illness, dysfunctional families or economically
disadvantaged backgrounds. This sweeping critique should stir national
debate." |
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| Dr. Wee Hung Lo |
| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:05 am |
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"Linda" <indomitable2@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%j8Bh.1940$x74.1411@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net...
: In essence, a hired gun is retained to go into court to knock out the
: opposing sides case. Some guns are paid with money, some with the
rewards of
: advancing their own professional niches; others exploit the soapbox of
the
: witness stand to advance their political agenda in the psychiatry-law
: interface. The hired gun provides anything but the unbiased, impassive
: testimony courts purport to seek to clarify the science."
:
Idiota, professionals of all ilks, including LEO's are called to support
both sides of any given case. Frequently you will find professionals who
have been called on to support both sides of a given point at different
times.
I wouldn't scoff at them if I were you as it would seem that you just
might be in need of one or two of them yourself. Don't forget linda
marie gore, your words are here for them to draw upon, as is your social
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