Law & Disorder – pain in the legal system
Objection! A very worthwhile read from Amanda Pustilnik in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry (open access) Legal Evidence of Subjective States: A Brain-Based Model of…
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This post originally appeared as an invited chapter commentary on the Body in Mind website. I was delighted to be asked to present a chapter…
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