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According to Wikipedia, Dorothy Otnow Lewis is an American psychiatrist and author who has been an expert witness at a number of high-profile cases. She specializes in the study of violent individuals and people with dissociative identity disorder , formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Lewis has worked with death row inmates as well as other prison inmates convicted for crimes of passion and violence, and was the director of the DID clinic at Bellevue Hospital, associated with New York University in New York City. She is a professor of psychiatry at Yale and New York University and is the author of Guilty by Reason of Insanity, a book she wrote based on research done in collaboration with neurologist Jonathan Pincus.

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Dorothy Otnow Lewis's Published Works

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Violent juvenile delinquents: psychiatric, neurological, psychological, and abuse factors. (1979) (315)
Neuropsychiatric, psychoeducational, and family characteristics of 14 juveniles condemned to death in the United States. (1988) (243)
From abuse to violence: psychophysiological consequences of maltreatment. (1992) (204)
Psychiatric, neurological, and psychoeducational characteristics of 15 death row inmates in the United States. (1986) (203)
Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys (1981) (198)
Biopsychosocial characteristics of children who later murder: a prospective study. (1985) (196)
Objective documentation of child abuse and dissociation in 12 murderers with dissociative identity disorder. (1997) (159)
Toward a theory of the genesis of violence: a follow-up study of delinquents. (1989) (155)
Juvenile male sexual assaulters. (1979) (133)
A follow-up of female delinquents: maternal contributions to the perpetuation of deviance. (1991) (120)
Sexually assaultive male juveniles: a follow-up. (1993) (119)
Perinatal difficulties, head and face trauma, and child abuse in the medical histories of seriously delinquent children. (1979) (111)
A clinical follow-up of delinquent males: ignored vulnerabilities, unmet needs, and the perpetuation of violence. (1994) (92)
Child abuse, delinquency, and violent criminality (1989) (91)
Biopsychosocial characteristics of matched samples of delinquents and nondelinquents. (1987) (90)
Homicidally aggressive young children: neuropsychiatric and experiential correlates. (1983) (88)
Psychomotor epilepsy and violence in a group of incarcerated adolescent boys. (1982) (87)
Race bias in the diagnosis and disposition of violent adolescents. (1980) (87)
Medical histories of delinquent and nondelinquent children: an epidemiological study. (1977) (83)
Delinquency and psychopathology (1976) (68)
Intrinsic and environmental characteristics of juvenile murderers. (1988) (66)
Violent and suicidal behavior in psychotic adolescents. (1982) (58)
Mortality in a group of formerly incarcerated juvenile delinquents. (1990) (54)
Some evidence of race bias in the diagnosis and treatment of the juvenile offender. (1979) (51)
Physical abuse in psychiatrically hospitalized children and adolescents. (1984) (45)
The undoing of residential treatment: a follow-up study of 51 adolescents. (1980) (44)
Conduct disorder and its synonyms: diagnoses of dubious validity and usefulness. (1984) (44)
Firesetting and nonfiresetting delinquents a comparison of neuropsychiatric, psychoeducational, experiential, and behavioral characteristics (1983) (37)
Bipolar mood disorder and endometriosis: preliminary findings. (1987) (37)
Medical histories of female delinquents. Clinical and epidemiologic findings. (1981) (37)
Psychiatric correlates of severe reading disabilities in an incarcerated delinquent population. (1980) (35)
Ethics questions raised by the neuropsychiatric, neuropsychological, educational, developmental, and family characteristics of 18 juveniles awaiting execution in Texas. (2004) (34)
Multiple personality and forensic issues. (1991) (30)
Violence: Perspectives on Murder and Aggression (1980) (28)
A comparison of the neuropsychiatric status of female and male incarcerated delinquents: some evidence of sex and race bias. (1982) (27)
Mental illness, neuropsychologic deficits, child abuse, and violence. (2000) (27)
Diagnostic Evaluation of the Child with Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder (1996) (25)
A comparison of the medical histories of incarcerated delinquent children and a matched sample of non-delinquent children (1979) (24)
Delinquency, parental psychopathology, and parental criminality: clinical and epidemiological findings. (1976) (23)
Drs. Lewis and Pincus Reply (1983) (21)
Epilepsy and violence: evidence for a neuropsychotic-aggressive syndrome. (1989) (20)
Juvenile court versus child guidance referral: psychosocial and parental factors. (1977) (19)
A comparison of delinquent and nondelinquent adolescent psychiatric inpatients. (1983) (19)
Psychomotor epileptic symptoms in six patients with bipolar mood disorders. (1984) (18)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Violence and Dissociation (1996) (17)
Neuropsychiatric vulnerabilities and violent juvenile delinquency. (1983) (17)
Parental criminality and medical histories of delinquent children. (1979) (17)
Child Abuse and Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder: The Documentation of Childhood Maltreatment and the Corroboration of Symptoms (1996) (17)
Filicidal abuse in the histories of 15 condemned murderers. (1986) (17)
Imaginary Companions of School Boys and Boys with Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder: A Normal to Pathologic Continuum (1996) (16)
Race, health, and delinquency. (1985) (15)
Medical histories of psychiatrically referred delinquent children: an epidemiologic study. (1979) (14)
Delinquency and the schizophrenic spectrum of disorders. (1978) (14)
Diagnostic evaluation of the juvenile offender (1976) (13)
From Abuse to Violence (1993) (13)
Medical histories of abused delinquents (1981) (13)
The treatment of adopted versus neglected delinquent children in the court: a problem of reciprocal attachment? (1975) (12)
The use of a correctional setting for follow-up care of psychiatrically disturbed adolescents. (1980) (12)
Neuropsychiatric and experiential correlates of violent juvenile delinquency (1990) (12)
Introduction: A Historical Perspective (1978) (11)
The Juvenile Justice Assessment Instrument (1993) (10)
Diagnostic evaluation of the violent child and adolescent. (2000) (10)
Six adoptees who murdered: neuropsychiatric vulnerabilities and characteristics of biological and adoptive parents. (2001) (10)
Delinquency, psychomotor epileptic symptoms and paranoid ideation: a triad. (1976) (9)
Depression in childhood: a biopsychosocial perspective. (1981) (9)
The Documentation of Central Nervous System Insults In Violent Offenders (1994) (7)
Subsequent psychiatric treatment and hospitalization in a delinquent population. (1974) (7)
Power and Authority in Adolescence: The Origins and Resolutions of Intergenerational Conflict (1979) (7)
"Sociopathy" and its synonyms: inappropriate diagnoses in child psychiatry. (1975) (6)
Pediatric management of psychologic crises. (1973) (6)
Abuse, Dissociative Phenomena, and Childhood Multiple Personality Disorder (1994) (5)
Psychobiological Perspectives on Delinquency (1980) (5)
Juvenile delinquency, adult criminality, and adult psychiatric treatment: An epidemiological study (1977) (4)
Trends in violence among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents: 1969 and 1979 compared. (1986) (3)
Etiology of Aggressive Conduct Disorders: Neuropsychiatric and Family Contributions (1994) (3)
Child psychiatric discharges against medical advice. (1986) (3)
Ecologic-Biochemical Approaches to Treatment of Delinquents and Criminals (1978) (2)
False memories of cult abuse. (1997) (2)
Three case reports of a single homicidal adolescent. (1985) (2)
Introducing a child psychiatric Service to a juvenile justice setting (1973) (2)
Ethical implications of what we know about violence. (2000) (2)
Filicidal Abuse in the Histories of 15 (1986) (2)
Drs. Lewis and Lewis Reply (2006) (1)
Serendipitous relief with disopyramide of phobia for flying. (1983) (1)
Ethical and moral considerations in the management of the unwed pregnant minor (2004) (1)
Dr. Lewis Replies (1968) (1)
Two violent adolescents. (1983) (1)
Dr. Lewis and Colleagues Respond (1999) (0)
Drs. Lewis and Balla Reply (1975) (0)
Basic Psychiatry for Corrections Workers (1978) (0)
Book Review: Abnormal Offenders, Delinquency, and the Criminal Justice System (1982) (0)
Longitudinal Studies in Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Practical Lessons and Research Experience (1985) (0)
Ideation: A Triad (1976) (0)
A Teaching Program in a Juvenile Court Setting (2009) (0)
The psychoanalytic model of a dream used as poetic form: Valéry and Freud. (1976) (0)
The Neuropsychiatric Assessment of the Adolescent (1985) (0)
The neuropsychiatric assessment of the adolescent. (1985) (0)
MULTIPLES : NO AMNESIA FOR CHILD ABUSE. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
Re: Ethics questions raised by characteristics of 18 juveniles awaiting execution in Texas. (2006) (0)
Book Review (2006) (0)
The Marriage Savers (1977) (0)

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