Military forensic psychiatry

Military forensic psychiatry.

Forensic psychiatry in the United States military.

Members of the U.S. military and their families represent a unique subsection of the American culture. The U.S. Constitution, federal law, and military regulations establish guidance for the conduct of service members during peacetime and wartime. This same hierarchy of law and regulation sets forth the legal rights and directs the provision of medical care for service members and their familie...

forensic psychiatry in iran

in iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of legal medicine organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. the duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

Terrorism and forensic psychiatry.

Media and news agencies often call psychiatrists and psychologists and pose questions about mental illness (a worthy topic) or some inane but catchy topic (such as the one I received from a reporter asking, with a straight face, “How do you diagnose people who talk to themselves?”). Big news about crimes, and especially terrorism, may push psychiatrist interviews from the local feature to the c...

Forensic psychiatry in Britain.

This report provides an overview of the criminal forensic mental health system in Great Britain, that is England and Wales. The report is based on the author's participant observation as a visiting consultant psychiatrist at a regional forensic facility in Manchester, England during early 1994. British law casts a net over a wider population of forensic patients than does U.S. law. There is a f...