r/ForensicPsych

Hello!

I’m a psychologist and have been following the Clancy trial, particularly the testimony from the forensic psychologists and psychiatrists.

I’m looking for recommendations for specific trials in which forensic psychologists and/or forensic psychiatrists played a significant role. I’m especially interested in cases where their testimony is readily available through video footage or transcripts and/or where the psychological or psychiatric evaluations conducted during the case are publicly available.

I’m open to cases from any time period, although I realize more recent or ongoing trials may be more likely to have easily accessible trial footage.

What specific trials would you recommend following or going back and watching? I’m particularly interested in cases where mental illness, competency, criminal responsibility, or the defendant’s mental state played a significant role.

I appreciate any recommendations!

hi next year I’m ending high school and I thought about going to college in the specific field of forensic psychology and for that reason because ever since I was then I researched the true crime et cetera. I know this may sound weird about the later at 14 15 16 I kind of kind of fell in love with forensic psychology and I started to do a lot of research and I also spend a lot of my free time researching stuff about the psychology and forensic psychology and honestly for some reason I started to have doubts about myself if I’m even good enough to do this job not in the way that I do not believe in myself but in the way that my neurodivergent brain might make it harder for me to get into this field and if I must tell the truth I always love to analyse how people act why they do their stuff they do why they act the way they speak the way they speak and generally I always thought of humans as some sort of animal so my question is if anybody in here that is never divergent is currently studying it or working as a forensic psychologist if they could share their experiences with that that would be amazing or anything that people may get surprised with during the work