Psychological concepts - Psychiatric concepts - Components of the psychiatric examination - Mental competence, testamentary capacity, and undue influence - Brain damage - Psychic trauma and emotional distress - Criminal behavior - Criminal responsibility - The criminal trial - Eyewitness reliability - Marital dissolution and child custody - Psychiatric malpractice - Interpersonal communication, negotiations: the counselor at law - Trial psychology - Picking juries - Direct examination of the psychiatric witness - Cross-examination of the psychiatric expert - Unorthodox but admissible use of psychiatric testimony - "Irreconcilable differences:" the attorney and the expert witness - Epilogue.