forensic psychiatry

forensic psychiatry
forensic psychiatry n the application of psychiatry in courts of law (as for the determination of criminal responsibility or liability to commitment for insanity)
forensic psychiatrist n

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psychiatry that deals with the legal aspects of mental disorders.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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