Product Description: Forensic mental health assessment has essentially become synonymous with forensic psychological assessment. This necessary shift toward empirically grounded procedures has had the unfortunate by-product of diminishing the importance of the clinical interview in favor of procedures biased in the direction of rigid structure and statistical formulas...read more

Product Description: This edited volume of nineteen articles brings for the first time to an English speaking audience the work of important writers in the Spanish, French, and German who note the concepts and treatments of mental disease in the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)