ABSTRACT
What does a psychotherapist have to say that might conceivably be of interest to practitioners concerned with legal evidence and courtroom procedure? Respect for hard evidence is not, I suspect, something the public at large believes psychotherapists are much preoccupied with. Sometimes we even think this about ourselves. There is an “in” joke about one of the founders of modern psychoanalysis. Her patient is late for a session, and she is displeased. “You are ten minutes late”, she says to the patient when he eventually fetches up, “You have missed the first two interpretations.”
