The role of the forensic psychiatrist and the psychoanalyst who become double agents between clinical and judicial rationales

This work deals with the problems emerging from the disquieting linking between law and psychiatry, in the peculiar context of psychiatric expertise, focusing on the role and on the doctrinal and scientific nature of expert testimony.

The authors point out that the forensic psychiatrist is shown to be scientifically and ethically ambiguous and a “double agent,” because of the theoretical and epistemological values and difficulties in the forensic and judicial context which he has to confront.