Dr. Ralph Slovenko, one of the country's most respected experts in forensic psychology, died Nov. 3 in Detroit. He was 86.

Dr. Slovenko was born and raised in New Orleans, and earned a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, a Ph.D. in psychodynamics and a law degree from Tulane University. He was a Fulbright scholar in Aix-en-Provence, France, and he earned certificates in international law from The Hague in Holland and Sorbonne, the University of Paris.

He was the author of hundreds of articles and more than 10 books, including the acclaimed "Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry," which went into a second edition in 2009.