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Experience and Opinions of Forensic Psychiatrists Regarding PTSD in Criminal Cases.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law

March 2016

Dr. Cohen is Clinical Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY. Dr. Appelbaum is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and the Law, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and Director, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and NY State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY.

By the end of 2014, 1.5 million veterans of the Second Iraq and Afghan wars were to have returned home, up to 35 percent with PTSD. The potential use of PTSD as the basis for legal claims in criminal defense is therefore a pressing problem.

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