The role of an expert forensic psychiatrist is likened with that of a translator: their task is to translate the language of medicine into the language of law. The aim of the article was to reconstruct the textual strategies adopted by forensic psychiatrists in terms of reconciling the discourses of law and medicine. The analysis covered 65 opinions/reports issued at a psychiatric reference centre in Poland. Thanks to the application of the innovative corpus linguistics methodology, the singularities of forensic psychiatric opinions as a genre have been captured and the degree of its conventionalisation has been assessed. The findings indicate that psychiatric opinions have not yet achieved the status of a homogenous genre, and the standardisation and formalisation processes have only reached the structural level. The expert psychiatrists constrained the presence of the author's voice and did not use the narrative form in their opinions. The analysis also captured the ethical challenges related to the dual role of forensic psychiatrists as medical doctors and representatives of the judicial system.

法医精神病专家的作用类似于翻译：他们的任务是将医学语言翻译成法律语言。这篇文章的目的是重构法医精神病学家在协调法律和医学话语方面所采用的文本策略。分析涵盖了波兰一家精神病咨询中心发布的 65 份意见/报告。由于应用了创新的语料库语言学方法，法医精神病学观点作为一种体裁的奇异性已经被捕捉到，并且其常规化程度也得到了评估。研究结果表明，精神病学观点尚未达到同质体裁的地位，标准化和形式化过程仅达到结构层面。专家精神病学家限制了作者声音的存在，并且没有在他们的意见中使用叙述形式。分析还捕捉到与法医精神病学家作为医生和司法系统代表的双重角色相关的伦理挑战。