Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T07:30:57.957Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Psychiatrist on the Law School Faculty: Influences on Professional Careers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Andrew S. Watson
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

I feel it a great honor to be invited to participate in the development of this festschrift for my old and dear friend, Jay Katz. We have shared the interdisciplinary trenches from the very beginning of our respective careers. We have struggled with some of the same problems; we have sometimes joined in teaching projects; there are several areas of law that we have both explored; and on one occasion we have even opposed each other as expert witnesses. Throughout the duration of these thirty-three years I have followed Jay's work closely, fully agreed with most of his principles, and often felt a twinge of envy that I had not written some of the papers which he did. Likewise, I have always felt greatly supported by Jay in my efforts, even though we have had minor disagreements from time to time and I shall discuss one of these later on. I seriously doubt that Jay's most recent works will turn out to be truly a valedictory. I anticipate the pleasure of continuing to read stimulating pieces by him in future years.

Type
Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Law
Information
Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 16 , Issue 3-4 , Winter 1988 , pp. 240 - 247
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Watson, A.S., “A Psychiatrist on the Law Faculty: The University of Pennsylvania Project.” 11 Journal of Legal Education 73–79 (1958).Google Scholar
Watson, A.S., Psychiatry for Lawyers (New York: International University Press, 1968) (Rev. Ed. 1978).Google Scholar
Watson, A.S., “On the Quest for Professional Competence: Psychological Aspects of Legal Education.” 37 University of Cincinnati Law Review 91–166 (1968).Google Scholar
Michael, J. & Wechsler, H., Criminal Law and Its Administration (Chicago: The Foundation Press, 1940).Google Scholar
Watson, A., supra note 3.Google Scholar
In case anyone misses this allusion, see Osborne, J.O. Jr., The Paper Chase (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971).Google Scholar
Goldstein, J. Freud, A. & Solnit, A., Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (New York: The Free Press, 1973); Before the Best Interests of the Child (New York: The Free Press, 1979); In the Best Interests of the Child (New York: The Free Press, 1986).Google Scholar
Foote, C. Levy, R.J. & Sander, F.E.A., Cases and Materials on Family Law (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1966); Goldstein, J. & Katz, J., The Family and the Law (New York: The Free Press, 1965).Google Scholar
For a verbatim transcription of a family law class taught in my process format, see Watson, A.S., “Know Thyself Know Thy Client.” 1 Learning and the Law 45 (1974). This class is also discussed by Kelso in note 13 infra.Google Scholar
Watson supra note 3 at 123–124.Google Scholar
Watson, A.S., “Mediation and Negotiation: Learning to Deal with Psychological Responses.” 18 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 293–305 (1985).Google Scholar
Watson, A.S., “Lawyers and Professionalism: A Further Psychiatric Perspective on Legal Education.” 8 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 248–285 (1975).Google Scholar
Kelso, C.D., “In Quest of a Theory for Lawyering: Some Hypotheses and a Tribute to Dean Soia Mentschikoff.” 29 University of Miami Law Review 2:159–197 (1975).Google Scholar
Watson, A.S., The Lawyer in the Interviewing and Counselling Process (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1976).Google Scholar
Katz, J., “Peter Browning Hoffman.” 66 Virginia Law Review 407–411 (1980).Google Scholar
For a more elaborated description of these methods see Watson, A.S., “Some Psychological Aspects of Teaching Professional Responsibility.” 16 Journal of Legal Education 1–73 (1963).Google Scholar
Stone, A., “Legal Education on the Couch.” 85 Harvard Law Review 392 (1971).Google Scholar
Katz, J. Goldstein, J. & Dershowitz, A., Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Law, p. 3.Google Scholar
“Denying” is used here in the sense of a psychological defense mechanism whereby something real in the outside world is treated by the person just as if it did not exist.Google Scholar
Katz, J., “Physician-Patient Encounters on a Darkling Plain.” 9 New England Law Review 207, 209 (1987). Also Katz, , “Informed Consent—A Fairy Tale? Law's Vision.” 39 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 137, 173 (1977).Google Scholar
Watson, A.S., “Some Psychological Aspects of the Trial Judge's Decision-Making.” 39 Mercer Law Review 937–960 (1988).Google Scholar