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28 J. Psychiatry & L. [i] (2000)

handle is hein.journals/jpsych28 and id is 1 raw text is: SPRING 2000 VOLUME 28 THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND LAW Notes on Contributors Preventing Critogenic Harms: Minimizing Emotional Injury from Civil Litigation 5 Should attorneys explore with clients the emotional costs and bene- fits of litigation? The authors discuss ways of minimizing its adverse impacts. THOMAS G. GUTHEIL, M.D., HAROLD BURSZTAJN, M.D., ARCHIE BRODSKY, B.A., AND LARRY H. STRASBURGER, M.D. The Role of Serotonin in Violence and Schizophrenia: Implications for Risk Assessment 19 Researchers have explored possible biological connections in the relationship between schizophrenia and violence. In this paper the authors consolidate and discuss the existing research on serotonin, schizophrenia and violence. ERIC B. ELBOGEN, M.S., AND MATTHEW T. HUSS, M.A. Unqualified Acquittal Versus Insanity: Mental Disorder as an Evidentiary Issue, Not an Affirmative Defense 49 When mental health is an issue in a criminal trial, does the insanity defense provide a better option than attacking the mental elements of the crime? Having reviewed insanity acquittal data, the author explains why the latter is often the better option. DAVID L. GOLDBERG, ESQ. Book Section: Essays and Reviews Addictive Behaviors: Readings on Etiology, Prevention and Treat- ment, edited by G. Alan Marlatt and Gary R. VandenBos, reviewed by Frederick Rotgers, Psy.D. Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders, edited by Richard J. Frances and Sheldon I. Miller, reviewed by R. Gregory Lande, D.O.