Tahir Rahman, MD

Forensic psychiatry is an important branch of psychiatry that deals with issues arising in the interface between psychiatry and the law.

The use of concise definitions is needed to better define legal insanity. Dr. Rahman provides guidance to forensic examiners on ways to separate delusions from non-delusional, rigidly held, shared beliefs.

Dr. Rahman is a forensic psychiatry expert from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine. He has testified as an expert witness in insanity and civil cases.