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When professional ethics clash with legal strategy

I'm a forensic psychologist and I keep getting pressured to diagnose defendants with things I don't think they have just to fit the legal narrative.

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Scientific integrity is being compromised by adversarial legal processes that demand certainty where none exists.

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