Viagra Enhances PPG results (go figure)
This article is free online until 12/31/2010 (following the linked title), though the abstact tells the story. Nathan J. Kolla, MD, MA, MSc, Philip E. Klassen, MD, Michael E. Kuban, MSc, Thomas Blak, BA and Ray Blanchard, PhD, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Sildenafil in Phallometric Testing, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 38:4:502-511 (2010). Not all […]
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Encounters behind bars between Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering and an American doctor 65 years ago raise questions about responsibility, allegiance and the nature of evil Excerpt from Scientific American Mind: January 2011: “In the aftermath of World War II, American psychiatrist Douglas M. Kelley worked closely with captured Nazis as their general physician and […]
Bias
Occasionally, after I have completed an evaluation and proffered an opinion, a party accuses me of “bias.” I think this means they disagree with my opinion. Most people cannot define “bias” very well. Karen Franklin defines bias very nicely in her Feedblitz forensic psychology blog. I quote her below: The term bias refers to a […]
Forensic Clinician’s Tool Box: Competency to Stand Trial measures
Assessment psychologists need a wide range of tools to address the variety of assessment challenges that arise in daily practice. Not that different from a set of wrenches and scredrivers designed for every type of bolt and screw. It is perhaps not surprising that many psychologists persist in using “traditional” assessment measures in forensic psychological assessment […]