Robert D. Hare, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, may have outwitted a couple of his critics by using the threat of a lawsuit to deter an academic journal, Psychological Assessment, from publishing an article critical of the “Hare Psychopathy Checklist,” his widely used diagnostic tool for assessing a criminal suspect’s potential for future violence. But two other researchers, writing in the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, say Mr. Hare may be ultimately causing himself more damage, by giving criminal defendants a broad opportunity to argue in court that all significant challenges to his methods have not been fully aired.
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I quite like Hare (and Cleckley’s earlier) work. This is disappointing.
This is sad. What happened? Is it an ego threat or a profit threat?
The concept of “doctor-patient confidentiality” derives from English COMMON LAW and is codified in many states’ statutes. It is based on ethics, not law, and goes at least as far back as the Roman Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians,Extreme Brite White