Commentary: on research and forensic patients' capacity.

Commentary: Skilled forensic capacity needed to investigate allegations of research misconduct.

Commentary: refusing to give up on forensic research.

Increasing regulation may soon cost forensic patients the opportunity to benefit from participating in research. A wise preventive strategy is the institutional use of quality assurance and related processes for regulating its internal research. Candilis and colleagues provide abundant useful information for this purpose. Additional models to consider include a centralized Institutional Review ...

Commentary: on walking and talking.

I welcome Dr. Kapoor's reflections on psychotherapy with offender patients. In this commentary, I will discuss the value of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of forensic patients and some of the technical competencies required. I hope that these thoughts, and Dr. Kapoor's fine writing, will inspire other forensic practitioners to practice psychodynamic forensic psychiatry and to util...

Commentary: psychotherapy in a forensic hospital.

Very little is written in American forensic journals about psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients committed to forensic hospitals. Relatively little is known of the process of helping these patients cope with their mental illnesses, to gain insight into their crimes and their unconscious dynamics, or simply to cope with the dreary landscape of the forensic maximum-security institution. In thi...

Commentary: DSM-5 and Forensic Psychiatry.

The periodic revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) reset the standard for diagnosis of mental disorders and hence are of immense importance to the mental health professions. Although primarily intended for use by clinicians, the criteria embodied in the manual serve several other purposes, including undergirding forensic evaluatio...