The Silent World of Collaborators from Different Disciplines

Katz J. , The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (New York: Free Press, 1984).

See e.g. F.V. Harper & J.H. Skolnick, Problems of the Family, preface iii, (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, rev. ed. 1962) for an early attempt at Yale by a lawyer and sociologist to integrate “the various disciplines which deal with family affairs”—a selection of appellate decisions and a compilation of “non-legal readings” from the social sciences.

Goldstein J. & Katz J. , The Family and the Law (New York: Free Press, 1964) 2.

Goldstein J. , “For Harold Lasswell: Some Reflections on Human Dignity, Entrapment, Informed Consent, and the Plea Bargain”, Yale Law Journal 683 (1975), 84.

Katz J. , “Reflections on Teaching Law and Medicine”, Houston Law Review 25 (1988), 475–476 (Hereafter referred to as Reflections.)

Katz J. Goldstein J. & Dershowitz A. , Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Law, 2, 422 (New York: The Free Press, 1967). Richard Donnelly, until his death, was a member of the collaborative team. Later Alan Dershowitz, while still a third-year law student, joined us.

Goldstein J. & Katz J. , The Family and the Law, 1 (New York: The Free Press. 1964). In our first two footnotes we observed:

From the start, Jay audited my criminal law class regularly. He was introduced to a “Socratic” method of teaching which, as he has said, he took to “like a fish takes to water.” Reflections479, 479. By chance the Criminal Law casebook opened with a set of problems that he also took to like a fish does to water, problems concerned with the use of the criminal law to regulate the conduct of doctors in relation to patients in therapy and to subjects of their experiments.

Goldstein & Katz, supra note 3, 1.

Id.: 2.

Ibid.

Id.: 4.

Id.: 9.

This book is the result of an intensive elbow-to-elbow collaboration. It represents a continuing effort by men of different disciplines—law and psychoanalysis—to understand and challenge each other's experiences, assumptions, and knowledge in furtherance of a common task: The study of the family law process. This collaboration extends beyond the two of us to our students. During the past five years they have contributed to the development of this volume by working through and challenging each of its five drafts. Its final shape has been determined by many rewarding and demanding, although not always satisfying, office, classroom, and seminar hours.

Goldstein & Katz, “Dangerousness and Mental Illness—-Some Observations on the Decision to Release Persons Acquitted by Reason of Insanity”, 70 Yale Law Journal, 223 (1960), simultaneously published under the reverse authorship of Kau & Goldstein in 131 Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 404 (1960); Goldstein & Katz , “Abolish the Insanity Defense—Why Not?”, 72 Yale Law Journal. 883 (1964), simultaneously published under the reverse authorship or Katz & Goldstein in 138 Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 57 (1964).

Reprinted in J. Goldstein, The Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic and Legal Education, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Monograph #5 (1975), 15.

Reprinted in Goldstein J. , “Anna Freud in Law,” The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 3, 4 (1984).

Goldstein & Katz, supra note 3, preface viii.

Katz, supra note 5, 477.

Id.: 478. In my independent writings on children and the law I would note that I was “a lawyer who happens to be a psychoanalyst (not a psychoanalyst who happens to be a lawyer).” Goldstein J. , “Psychoanalysis and a Jurisprudence of Child Placement—with Special Emphasis on the Role of Legal Counsel for Children”, 1 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 109 (1978).

Katz, supra note 5, 477–78 (Emphasis supplied).

Katz, supra note 1, particularly 102–04.

Anna Freud accepted a joint invitation from the Law School and the Child Study Center at Yale to be a visiting lecturer in the spring of 1968 to work on drafting a model code of procedure for the disposition of children. She had stimulated a collaborative tie between the two departments that continues to this day. See Goldstein J. , “Anna Freud” 92 Yale Law Journal 219 (1982).

Goldstein J. Freud A. Solnit A.J. and Goldstein S. , In the Best Interests of the Child (1986) 16–17. See generally Chapter 2, “Untangling Professional and Personal Beliefs.”

Goldstein J. Freud A. & Solnit A. , Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973); Goldstein J. Freud A. & Solnit A. , Before the Best Interests of the Child (1979); and Goldstein J. Freud A. Solnit A. and Goldstein S. , In the Best Interests of the Child (1986). Dorothy Burlingham, who always joined our work sessions, described them in the preface to BEYOND as being punctuated with … moments when individual opinions clashed and lively battles ensued during which each contributor obstinately clung to and defended a conviction of his own…. But even disagreements which at first appeared insoluble were resolved after much discussion and argumentation … The high excitement revealed the enormous investment in their joint venture and mutual collaboration. At moments of tension the atmosphere was also relieved by humor, for example, when [Anna Freud] remembered nostalgically how easy and comfortable it had been to write books all on her own.