In brief, informal chapters, each arranged topically around one practical principle, the author helps both the veteran expert witness and the novice identify effective modes of preparation for offering testimony, understand the courtroom milieu, and evaluate the effectiveness of testimony before and after the actual experience.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Admit–Deny
Advocacy: 1. The "Bought Expert" Accusation
Advocacy: 2. The Pull of Affiliate
Becoming Current
Burden of Proof and Degree of Certainty
Challenges to Experience: 1. Insufficient Experience
Challenges to Experience: 2. Irrelevant Experience
Challenges to Experience: 3. The Case Against Experience
Changing Your Mind
Child Sexual Abuse: 1. Lying and Fantasy
Child Sexual Abuse: 2. Anatomically Detailed Dolls
Client Dissimulation: 1. Clinical Considerations
Client Dissimulation: 2. Research Considerations
Collaborative Criticism
Concepts and Definitions
Courtroom as Place Identity
Credentialing: 1. Facts
Credentialing: 2. Challenges
Culturally Different Clients
The Direct Examination
Disaster Relief
DSM Cautions
Elder Abuse and Neglect
Employment Discrimination
Examiner Effects
Fishing Expeditions
Fraternization During the Trial
Freud as an Expert Witness
The Historic Hysteric Gambit
How You Know What You Know
Humor
The Idealism Hazard
Intimidation
Just Before the Court Appearance
The Language of Testimony: 1. General Principles
The Language of Testimony: 2. Fluent Testimony
The Learned Treatise Gambit
The Limits of Expertise
Listening Well
Negative Assertions
Orientation to the Courtroom
Power and Control on the Witness Stand: 1. The Process
Power and Control: 2. Time and the Art of Testifying
Power and Control: 3. Gaze and Eye Contact
Power and Control: 4. Personal Space
The Primary Source Gambit
Probes for Guilt and Shame
The Professional Witness
Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses
The Push–Pull
Quiet Moments on the Stand
The Rumpelstiltskin Principle
Saying "I Don't Know"
Scientist Challenges
The Star-Witness Fantasy
Termination of Parental Rights
Transformative Moments
The Well-Dressed Witness
When It Is Over
When Your Attorney Is Indifferent or Incompetent
While Lawyers Fuss
Ziskin & Faust Are Sitting on the Table
References
Reviews & Awards
The content is superb…just as delightful for the experienced courtroom expert as for the novice…[Brodsky] is a master at teaching…In a word, this is a winner.
Dr. Thomas Grisso, Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology) University of Massachusetts Medical Center and Past President, American Psychology and Law Society
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