Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 2Ed

This is the revised and expanded second edition of the award-winning textbook, Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry. The major sections of the book address the History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, Legal Regulation of the Practice of Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Civil Law, Psychiatry and Criminal Law, Psychiatry and Family Law, Special Issues in Forensic Psychiatry, Law and the Legal System, and the Landmark Cases in Mental Health Law. The book is designed to meet the needs of practitioners of forensic psychiatry, for residents in forensic psychiatry, for persons preparing for the specialty examination in Forensic Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and for those mental health professionals and mental health administrators, correctional health professionals and correctional health administrators, attorneys, judges, probation and parole officers and administrators who require a substantive presentation of the entire field of forensic psychiatry in the U.S.A.(An Arnold Publication)