SternSkipper
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In essence, the forensic psychiatrist evaluates the competencies of certain persons to understand and accomodate lawful obligations to others. Although the potential for acquiring such competency is innate in human nature, achieving it and maintaining it is not inevitable in a given individual's personal development. One's ability to act responsibly as an adult may be derailed by many influences, including symptomatic mental illness, maladaptive personality traits, problematic relationships, and extraordinary circumstances. The justification for psychiatry's intervention into the legal system thus follows immediately from the fact that the individual's capacity to relate to others is affected by his mental and emotional state. Muse..... there is a very important distinction here that neither the desert sockpuppet nor the site you cited. Most states (for the purpose of evaluating for fitness or testifying to the merits of criminal insanity, or even diminished capacity) are in fact these so-called forensic psychiatrists, they are in fact psychiatrists of various specialties employed generally within a state psychiatric facility and deemed superior in most cases as to their credibility (it's kind of like in a family law case where both sides introduce testimony that paints one parent or the other as fit... Often a child welfare agency will step in, or a guardian ad litem ) because they are employed by the state as the state's experts, they are considered to have a superior quality of impartiality. Now enter the FOR HIRE 'forensic psychiatrist' he is there on behalf of the defendant more than 90 percent of the time and he is basically a very biased member of the defense team. If they pull down the defendant's pants and his dick is soft, the defense attorney leans over to him and whispers "his dick is hard". The forensic psychiatrist will face the judge and say "your honor. After a careful examination of the defendant, I have found him to have a very hard dick" They are as honest as the desert sockpuppet is long
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