Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses

The book describes the author's extensive experience of working as an expert witness in family courts. It provides detailed guidance for assessing families for the courts, as well giving many detailed clinical examples to illustrate points made. Topics covered include guidance for experts, assessment of families, contact issues, fostering and adoption and rehabilitation issues.

Roger Kennedy is a psychoanalyst in private practice, a training analyst and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is Consultant Psychiatrist at the Family Unit, Cassel Hospital, and author of nine previous books, including 'Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses' (2005), and 'The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis' (2007). He is also a published poet.

CHAPTER ONE Introduction-the expert and the courts, CHAPTER TWO Assessing families, CHAPTER THREE The "best worst option": three examples, CHAPTER FOUR Contact issues, CHAPTER FIVE Rehabilitation issues: remove children or keep them, with their parents? CHAPTER SIX Conclusions