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By Ralph Slovenko. 436 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1995. $55. ISBN 0-471-05425-9.

The subversion of criminal responsibility by psychiatry is the subject of this well-researched, exhaustively footnoted book by law professor Ralph Slovenko. Two hundred thoughtful pages that scrutinize the insanity defense and its consequences are followed by a penetrating examination of "psychiatric testimony under a not guilty plea" and a valuable critique of psychiatric testimony in general. The book responds to Dr. Karl Menninger's final book, Whatever Happened to Sin?, with a weaker chapter on "sin or sickness."

The book's longest and most important chapter, on "clinical disorders of legal significance," notes the expansion of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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