Hybrid orders: An analysis of their likely effects on sentencing practice and on forensic psychiatric practice and services

Forensic psychiatric practice shows that a lot of crimes are committed by persons suffering from epilepsy. There is nothing surprising, says prof. Kovalevsky, that in many cases of epileptic crimes, there are misunderstandings and disagreements both between experts (doctors) and the court, and between judges."

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Criminal Competencies

Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780199344659.003.0023 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 135-140

Author(s):

Matthew W. Grover

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Psychiatric Practice ◽

Competence To Stand Trial ◽

Legal Standards ◽

Forensic Psychiatric

Chapter 23 includes cases that are important for one of the staples of forensic psychiatric practice, competence to stand trial evaluations. Knowledge of the legal standards required for one to defend oneself, either with or without an attorney, is necessary for a practitioner to be able to capably assess whether a mental illness prevents a defendant from participating in the adjudication process. The cases in this chapter are Dusky v. U.S., Wilson v. U.S., Jackson v. Indiana, Drope v. Missouri, Godinez v. Moran, Cooper v. Oklahoma, and Indiana v. Edwards.

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Difficulties in the differential diagnosis of endogenous, organic and psychogenic disorders

Neurology Bulletin ◽

10.17816/nb80863 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol XXXIII (3-4) ◽

pp. 54-58

Author(s):

I. M. Becker ◽

V. V. Vasiyanova ◽

O. V. Koblova

Keyword(s):

Differential Diagnosis ◽

Forensic Psychiatry ◽

Psychiatric Practice ◽

Psychiatric Clinic ◽

Disorder Of Consciousness ◽

General Psychopathology ◽

Pathogenetic Mechanisms ◽

The Past ◽

Psychogenic Disorders ◽

Forensic Psychiatric

Over the past decades, the number of acute reactive psychoses with a classic picture of clouding of consciousness, traditionally considered hysterical for pathogenesis, has been steadily decreasing. L.V. Romasenko (1988) provides data on the intranosomorphosis of hysterical manifestations in forensic psychiatric practice, a decrease in the number of hysterical reactions outside the framework of hysterical psychopathies during 60 years of observation. If in the 1946 manual on forensic psychiatry, hysterical twilight states are shown as a frequent occurrence, and Ganser's syndrome is considered at the same time as a kind of pseudodement state, then already in Forensic Psychiatry (1988) a typical clinic of Ganser's syndrome is defined as an acutely occurring twilight disorder of consciousness and the conclusion is made that "at present in the forensic psychiatric clinic there is rarely a clinically expressed Ganser syndrome." Finally, the latest manual from Forensic Psychiatry (1998) describes the same clinic and concludes that "this syndrome does not currently occur in the forensic psychiatric clinic." A classic description of the Ganser syndrome is given in the "Guide to Psychiatry" by E. Bleuler (1920). The most vividly pathogenetic mechanisms of reactive states are presented in "General psychopathology" by K. Jaspers (1997).

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Special observations in forensic psychiatric practice: gender issues of the watchers and the watched

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01470.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. 910-918 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

T. MASON ◽

E. MASON-WHITEHEAD ◽

M. THOMAS

Keyword(s):

Gender Issues ◽

Psychiatric Practice ◽

Forensic Psychiatric

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