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ReviewBJPsych advances2026

Is justice served by reliance on ICD and DSM classifications of mental disorder in medico-legal reporting?

Keith Rix

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Review in BJPsych advances, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Keith Rixa Door Tenant, The Chambers of Mark Love, Inner Temple, London, UK; Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Life Sciences, University of Chester, Chester, UK; and an Honorary Associate Professor at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is a retired forensic psychiatrist and a co-editor of Rix's Expert Psychiatric Evidence (Cambridge University Press). He has been awarded honorary fellowships of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and the Expert Witness Institute.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0575-3277

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The histories of the DSM and ICD classifications are set out so as to identify weaknesses and limitations that can affect their application in medico-legal reporting. These are illustrated by reference to published judgments and three detailed case studies. The analysis and case studies identify how expert witnesses' reliance on the DSM and ICD can be challenged in order to seek to undermine their evidence.

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DSMexpert evidenceICDjusticemedico-legal

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PMID41789414
PMCPMC12957960

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