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Edited by Robert I. Simon and Daniel W. Shuman. 471 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Publishing, 2002. $69. ISBN 1-58562-001-7.

Retrospective Assessment of Mental States in Litigation: Predicting the Past, edited by Robert I. Simon and Daniel W. Shuman — a doctor–lawyer team — is an outstanding collection of essays on retrospective assessments of mental states in both civil and criminal contexts. As many of the contributors note, such retrospective assessments entail both philosophical and practical problems. Assessing a mental state, particularly a mental state in the past, is a task of daunting complexity. We cannot get inside another person's mind in the present, and attempting to do so retrospectively is another matter entirely. As this book demonstrates, there may . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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