This paper concerning the last 87 malpractice cases referred to the Department of Psychiatry and Law, Menninger Clinic, includes 57 suits against mental health practitioners and/or institutions, and 30 nonpsychiatric suits against general hospitals, surgeons, obstetricians, etc. A patient was available for interview in only 12 percent of the psychiatric cases; in 88 percent we reviewed medical ...

Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland Department of Social Pharmacy (Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Economics), University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland ESiOR Oy, P.O. Box 1188, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland Niuvanniemi Hospital, Kuopio, Finland Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuopio, Finland Department of Forensic Mental Health Science...

Since 1972, Roy Schafer has published a series of articles re-conceptualizing the language of psychoanalysis. 1 Through his "action language," Schafer has replaced the mechanistic propositions of traditional psychoanalytic metapsychology with propositions free of anthropomorphism and determinism. His work is aimed toward psychoanalysts; he believes his system offers analysts a clearer, simpler ...

Forensic psychiatry at Yale begins, develops, and endures through the life and work of Howard Zonana. But the developments at Yale are only a part of a more complex and global story of one man's extraordinary influence on the evolution of practice and thought in forensic psychiatry in legislation and case law, teaching and scholarship, professional organizational activity, and public policy. Th...

Twenty-five years ago, a major article by Professor Alan Stone on ethics in forensic psychiatry was published. It caused reverberations on a national scale. After the seismic shocks that he had provoked settled down, several thoughtful forensic psychiatrists set out to take serious stock of his critique and to articulate ways in which corrective actions could be taken. Indeed, slightly more tha...

for paper presented at the 57 American Academy of Forensic Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005.

For the past several years a numerous studies in the field of forensic psychiatry confirmed a close relationship between violent offenders and comorbid substance abuse. The comorbid substance abuse in violent offenders was usually unrecognized and misdiagnosed. Furthermore, comorbidity in forensic psychiatry describes the co-occurrence of two or more conditions or psychiatric disorder known in ...