Introduction to the Second Edition Admit-Deny Burden of Proof and Degree of Certainty Challenges to Experience: 1. Insufficient Experience Challenges to Experience: 2. Case-Specific Experience Challenges to Experience: 3. The Case Against Experience Changing Your Mind Child Sexual Abuse Testimony Collateral Data Courtroom as Place Identity Credentialing Culture Diagnoses and Definitions The Direct Examination Disaster Relief DSM Cautions Examiner Effects Feisty Experts: Witnesses Chiding Judges and Attorneys Freud as an Expert Witness Frittering Away Trustworthiness The Hired Gun The Historic Hysteric Gambit Humor Intimidation Just Before the Court Appearance Knowing When to Fold Them Language of Testimony The Learned Treatise Gambit Listening Well Malingering and Faking Good Moving On Narcissistic Experts Negative Assertions Perspective-Taking Power and Control on the Witness Stand Predictable Answers Probes for Guilt and Shame Professional Witnesses and Professionalism Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses The Pull to Affiliate and Allegiance Effects The Push-Pull Technique Qualifications and Expertise Report Matters The Rumpelstiltskin Principle Saying "I Don't Know" Versus Waffling Socialization During the Trial Staying Current Theatrical and Outlandish Attorneys Transformative Moments Uninvolved and Inept Attorneys Using Quiet Times Vigorous Cross-Examinations and Vigorous Answers The Well-Dressed Witness When It Is Over Worst Testifying Experiences Your Expertise Used Against You References Index About the Author.