Daubert Institute for Forensic Psychology

Selected Publications
Fielder, J. (August 11. 2011) Chasing Daubert: Excluding Unscientific & Unethical Psychiatric &
Psychological Testimony. The Recorder Online: Practice/Litigation Section.
Fielder, J.F. (2006) Litigators Need to Use Science to Debunk Expert Testimony. San Francisco Daily
Journal, 04.26, 9.
Fielder, J.F. (2005) The Impact of Daubert on the Admission of Psychiatric and Psychological Expert
Testimony: Implications for Using and Challenging Experts. San Francisco Daily Journal. (04.08).
Fielder, J.F. (2004) Professional and Legal Standards of Evidence: Turning Up the Light on
Psychological & Psychiatric Experts. The Bench, March, 2004.
Fielder, J.F. (2002) Defending Against Claims for Emotional Distress: Strategies and Guidelines. Claims,
4:66–70.
Fielder, J.F. (1998) Scientific Notation: Expert Psychologists and Psychiatrists Must Meet Standard, San
Francisco Daily Journal, 1.6.98.
Fielder, J.F. (1997) 'Daubert' can Undermine Psychiatric Testimony, The National Law Journal, 9.22.97.
Fielder, J.F. & Roberts, M.M. (1996) Debunking PTSD. The Recorder, 5.29.96.
Fielder, J.F. (1996) The 'Daubert' Deposition. San Francisco Daily Journal, 9.6.96
Fielder, J.F. (1994) The Admissibility of Psychological Evidence after Daubert v. Merrell Dow
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., California Courts Commentary, 34(7), 11.
Fielder, J.F. (1994) Mental Disabilities and the Americans with Disability Act: A Compliance Handbook
for Executives, Westport, CT.: Quorum Books.
Recommended Reading
Aldrich, C. (1986). The clouded crystal ball: A 35-year follow-up of psychiatrists’
predictions. Am. J. Psychiatry, 143:1: 45-49.
American Academy of Forensic Psychology. (1991). Specialty Guidelines for Forensic
Psychologists. Law and Human Behavior, 15:6: 655-665.
American Educational Research Association. (1999). Standards for Educational and
Psychological Testing. Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research
Association.
American Psychiatric Association. (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders, Fourth Edition, 4th edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
American Psychological Association. (2002). Ethical Principles of Psychologists and
Code of Conduct.
American Psychological Association. (1992). Ethical Principles of Psychologists and
Code of Conduct. Dec. 1992.
Amicus Curae Brief of Seventy-Two Nobel Laureates, Seventeen State Academies of
Science and Seven Other Scientific Organizations in Support of Appellees.
Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. Oct. Term 1986 as Edward
W. Edwards in his official capacity as Gov. of Louisiana, et. al., Appellants v.
Don Aguillard, et. al., Appellees, 1986.
Anastasi, A. (1988). Psychological Testing. New York: Macmillan.
Breggin, P. (1991). Toxic Psychiatry. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Campbell, T.W. Challenging Psychologists and Psychiatrists as Witnesses, 73 Mich. B.J.
68 (Jan. 1994).
Campbell, D. and Stanley, J. (1963) Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research.
Chicago: Rand McNally.
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 113 S. Ct. 2786 (1993)
Dawes, R. (1994). House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth. New
York: Simon and Schuster.
Dixon, L. & Gill, B. (2002) Changes in the standards for admitting expert evidence in federal
civil cases since the Daubert decision. RAND Institute for Civil Justice.
Faigman, D.L. (1995) The evidentiary status of social science under Daubert: Is it "scientific,"
"technical," or "other" knowledge? Psycholgy, Public Policy and Law, I, 960-979.
Faigman, D.L. et. al. (1997) Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony
(Vols. 1-2). St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.
Faigman, D.L. (!999) Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony (Vol. 3).
St. Paul, MN. West Publishing Co.
Faigman, D.L. et. al. (2002) Modern Scientific Evidence. Vol. I. St. Paul MN: West Publishing Co.
Faigman, D.L. et. al. (2002) Science in the Law: Social and Behavioral Science Issues. St.
Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.
Frances, A.J., ed. (1995). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.
Frye v. United States, 54 App. D.C. 46, 293 F. 1013 (1923).
Gatowski, S.I., et. al. (2001). Asking the gatekeepers: A national survey of judges on judging expert
Evidence in a post-Daubert world. Law and Human Behavior, 25(5), 433-458.
General Electric Company v. Joiner 522 U.S. 136 (1997).
Hagen, M. (1997). Whores of the Court. New York: HarperCollins.
Huber, P. (1991). Galileo's Revenge. New York: Basic Books.
Jampala, V., et. al. (1988). The use of the DSM-III in the United States: A case of not
going by the book. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 29:1:39-47.
Kovera, M.B. & McAuliff, B.D. (2000). The Effects of peer-review and evidence quality on
judge evaluation of psychological science: Are judges effective gate-keepers?. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 85(4), 574-586.
Kumho Tire Company, Ltd. v. Patrick Carmichael, et. al. 526 U.S., (1999).
Lillienfeld, S.O., et. al., (2001). What’s Wrong with This Picture? Scientific American,
284:5: 80-87.
Lipton, A. and Simon, F. (1985). Psychiatric diagnosis in a state hospital: Manhattan
State revisited. Hosp. Community Psychiatry. 36:368-373.
Loftus, E. (1991). Witness for the Defense. New York: St. Martin’s Press
May, J. and Miller, P.R. (1997). Note-taking and information recall. J. Amer. Med. Educ.
52:524-525.
McNemar, Q. (1962) Psychological Statistics. New York: Wiley.
Park, R. Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud. USA: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
Pope, K., et. al., (1993) The MMPI, MMPI-2, & MMPI-A in Court. Washington D.C.:
American Psychological Association.
Rakoff, V., et. al. (1977). Psychiatric Diagnoses. New York: Brunner/Mazel,
Rosenhan, D. (1973). On being insane in insane places. Science, 179: 250-258.
Rosenthal, D. (1966). Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research. New York:
Appleton-Century-Crofts.
Ross. D. & Pam, A. (1995). Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry. New
York: John Wiley.
Siegel, S. & Castellan, N.J. (1988) Non-Parametric Statistics for the Behavioral
Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Shermer, M. (1997). Why People Believe Weird Things. New York: W.H. Freeman.
World Health Organization: The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural
Disorders (1992). Geneva: World Health Organization
Ziskin, J. (1995) Coping with Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony. 5th ed. 3 vols.
Los Angeles: Law and Psychiatry Press.