Forensic Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatry - Legal Medicine

How it begins

La Psiquiatría Forense es una rama de la psiquiatría y de la medicina legal que se ocupa de las intersecciones entre la salud mental y la ley. Su objetivo fundamental no es terapéutico, sino pericial: consiste en la traducción de los hallazgos psicopatológicos al lenguaje y a los requerimientos del sistema de justicia, asistiendo a jueces y tribunales en la toma de decisiones relativas a la imputabilidad penal, la…

What it covers

1. · 1. Psychic Anomaly or Alteration (Mental Alienation)
2. · 2. Transient Mental Disorder (TMT)
3. · 3. Full Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndrome
4. · 4. Alterations in Perception
5. Criminal Phenomenology in Psychosis
6. Chronic Delusional Disorder (Paranoia)
7. The Jurisprudential Evolution of TP
8. The Construct of Psychopathy (Cleckley and Hare)
9. Levels of Affect by Substances and Guilt
10. Clinical-Toxicological Correlations in Criminalistics
11. Evaluation of Decision Making Capacity
12. Testamentary Capacity Criteria (Historical Rules of Banks v. Goodfellow, 1870)
13. Strategies and Semiology for the Detection of Psychiatric Simulation
14. Psychometric Tools in Simulation Evaluation
15. · Ganser Syndrome
16. Causality Link and Simonin Criteria
17. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Forensic
18. Phases of the Expert Methodology
19. Structure of the Psychiatric Expert Report (Opinion)
20. The Expert Evidence at the Oral Hearing (The Trial)