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  1. Serious Mental Illness, Dependence, and Care: California’s Legal Initiatives on Grave Disability

    Article • Psychiatric Services, November 2025, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  2. “Self-Induced Symptoms” and the Insanity Defense

    Article • Psychiatric Services, September 2025, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  3. “A Liability to the University”—Addressing Student Mental Health Needs on Campus

    Article • Psychiatric Services, August 2024, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  4. Patients’ Suits Against Psychiatrists for Not Preventing the Patients’ Criminal Acts

    Article • Psychiatric Services, April 2024, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  5. Older Workers, Cognitive Impairment, and Discrimination

    Article • Psychiatric Services, December 2023, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  6. Preventing Abuses in Guardianship Cases

    Article • Psychiatric Services, October 2023, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  7. Prosecutors, Judges, and the Punishment of Mental Illness

    Article • Psychiatric Services, July 2023, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  8. Regulating Workplace Safety in Psychiatric Facilities

    Article • Psychiatric Services, February 2023, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  9. Workplace Discrimination Against People With Mental Disorders and the ADA

    Article • Psychiatric Services, October 2022, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  10. Excited Delirium, Ketamine, and Deaths in Police Custody

    Article • Psychiatric Services, July 2022, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  11. Settled Insanity: Substance Use Meets the Insanity Defense

    Article • Psychiatric Services, January 2022, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  12. Iterative Revision of the DSM: An Interim Report From the DSM-5 Steering Committee

    Article • Psychiatric Services, November 2021, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  13. Discharge Planning in Correctional Facilities: A Constitutional Right?

    Article • Psychiatric Services, April 2020, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  14. Holding Insurers Accountable for Parity in Coverage of Mental Health Treatment

    Article • Psychiatric Services, February 2020, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  15. In Search of a New Paradigm for Research on Violence and Schizophrenia

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, September 2019, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  16. Dementia and the Death Penalty

    Article • Psychiatric Services, July 2019, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  17. Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: Retaining a Meaningful Comprehension Requirement for Consent to Research

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Paul Appelbaum

  18. Responsibility for Suicide or Violence on Campus

    Article • Psychiatric Services, March 2019, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  19. Patients’ Beliefs About Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Article • AJOB Neuroscience, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Paul Appelbaum

  20. Ordering Abstinence: How Far Can Courts Go in Requiring Offenders to Remain Substance Free?

    Article • Psychiatric Services, October 2018, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  21. Civil Commitment for Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders: Does It Work?

    Article • Psychiatric Services, April 2018, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  22. Forensic Experts, Indigent Defendants, and the Constitution

    Article • Psychiatric Services, January 2018, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  23. Moving Toward the Future in the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders

    Article • Psychological Science in the Public Interest, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Paul Appelbaum

  24. Should Mental Disorders Be a Basis for Physician-Assisted Death?

    Article • Psychiatric Services, April 2017, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  25. Does the Second Amendment Protect the Gun Rights of Persons With Mental Illness?

    Article • Psychiatric Services, January 2017, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  26. Protecting the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: An International Convention and Its Problems

    Article • Psychiatric Services, April 2016, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  27. Law & Psychiatry: Regulating Psychotherapy or Restricting Freedom of Speech? California’s Ban on Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

    Article • Psychiatric Services, January 2014, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum

  28. Reforming Malpractice: The Prospects for Change

    Article • Psychiatric Services, January 2011, American Psychiatric Association

    Paul Appelbaum