For more than two decades, Stanley L. Brodsky has taught expert witnesses simple and practical strategies they can use to negotiate challenges in the courtroom and give strong, effective testimony. In this thorough update to his classic guide, Brodsky and his equally prolific coauthor, Thomas G. Gutheil, continue to provide sage, humorous advice that will put expert witnesses at ease and allow them to comport themselves with poise and confidence throughout direct and cross-examination. Short chapters punctuated by memorable maxims draw from the authors’ expansive personal experiences, as well as research and stories from other expert expert witnesses, to create this must-have resource that will inform and entertain expert witnesses for many years.

The Expert Expert Witness More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court
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For more than two decades, Stanley L. Brodsky has taught expert witnesses simple and practical strategies they can use to negotiate challenges in the courtroom and give strong, effective testimony. In this thorough update to his classic guide, Brodsky and his equally prolific coauthor, Thomas G. Gutheil, continue to provide sage, humorous advice that will put expert witnesses at ease and allow them to comport themselves with poise and confidence throughout direct and cross-examination. Short chapters punctuated by memorable maxims draw from the authors’ expansive personal experiences, as well as research and stories from other expert expert witnesses, to create this must-have resource that will inform and entertain expert witnesses for many years.
Author Biography
Stanley L. Brodsky, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Alabama. He has written 14 books and about 250 articles, mostly in psychology applied to the law. He has received distinguished achievement awards from the American Psychology-Law Society, The International Association of Forensic and Correctional Psychology, and other scholarly and professional societies. He is a frequent leader of workshops based on his book Testifying in Court. In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brodsky has been a visiting fellow at universities in New Zealand, India, Israel, and England.
Thomas G. Gutheil, MD, is a professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and cofounder of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School; he is the first professor of psychiatry in the history of Harvard Medical School to be certified in both general and forensic psychiatry. A recipient of every major award in the forensic field and multiple teaching and writing awards, Dr. Gutheil has authored or coauthored more than 300 publications in the national and international forensic literature. He is past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law and the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. Associated with the Massachusetts Mental Health Center for a half-century. Dr. Gutheil lives and works in the Boston area.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
- Apologies
- Arbitrary Pigeonholes
- Asked and Answered
- Boundaries Between Expert Witness Roles and Trial Consultation
- Confabulations
- Consistent Experts
- Context
- Directed Feedback
- Discovery and Discoveries
- Ethics in Expert Testimony
- Evasive Responses: Hopeless But Not Serious
- Experience Does Not Count
- Expert Witness as Master Teacher
- Fact Witnesses
- Frames of Reference
- Gender-Intrusive Questions
- Gotcha and Goodbye
- Holy Mackerel, Man!
- Illusory Documentation
- Integrity Checks
- Language: It's a Virus
- Lawyer Bashing and Lawyer Jokes
- Le Mot Juste
- Lost and Befuddled
- Low Pitches
- Metatestimony
- Offensive Language
- Offensive Questions
- Personal Attacks: Overview
- Personal Attacks: Demeaning Attorneys
- Personal Attacks: Internet Vulnerabilities
- Personal Attacks: Taints
- Pulling and the Push–Pull
- Real and Apparent Ambiguities
- Recording of Assessments
- Sayonara Solutions
- Silent Treatments
- Sleight of Hand
- Social Construction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Dangerousness
- Spontaneity and Alertness on the Stand
- Swoop and Perch
- Telephoned and Videorecorded Testimony
- Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
- Their Words in Our Mouths
- Tightrope Walking
- To Faint, To Weep, To Blank Out
- Traps of Common Sense
- True Grit and False
- Ultimate Opinion Testimony
- Well Beyond Testimony
- What We Like to See in an Expert Witness — And What We Don't
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References
Index
About the Authors
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