Forensic Psychiatry

Here’s a step-by-step guide of how to beat false allegations of child abuse.

Child custody battles can get contentious. Here’s how to handle false allegations.

Evaluating a new framework for evaluating undue influence and its implications for elder abuse and human trafficking cases.

How can we more effectively evaluate undue influence? Here are methodologies and findings for research into a new framework that may help victims of undue influence find justice.

How can we evaluate undue influence to get justice for victims of cults and other exploitation situations?

After parents break up, why is the father-daughter relationship typically more damaged than the father-son relationship?

Here’s how to avoid false assumptions in cases of parental alienation to ensure better outcomes for children.

How can mental health experts help identify false allegations and alienation during divorce proceedings?

With so many stories of trauma associated with the criminal justice system, it is time to reexamine how this population is treated.

False allegations of abuse during a custody battle can seriously harm children. Here's how psychiatrists can separate fact from fiction.

How can digital therapeutics overcome barriers to psychiatric treatment in forensic settings?

A clinical approach to detecting false allegations of abuse in child custody cases.

What does the scientific evidence tell us about treatment for pedophilia? The answer might surprise you.

Does the typical malpractice insurance policy cover COVID-related claims? That question and more answered.

Fire setting is the current preferred term in the literature to describe acts of deliberately started fires regardless of their legal or diagnostic status.

Editor in chief emeritus of Psychiatric Times, James L. Knoll IV, MD, was recently recognized for notable achievements in the education and teaching of forensic psychiatry.

While incarceration is the definitive “treatment” for some, psychopathy exists on a spectrum like any other mental disorder; more recent research suggests the condition is capable of responding to treatment.

Defense attorneys have concerns regarding their client’s competency in about 8% to 15% of felony prosecutions. That is where psychiatrists come in.

A significant proportion of incarcerated individuals struggle with with addiction. So what is being done about it?

Throughout the centuries, we have continued to puzzle over our capacity for antisocial behavior

Practical tips for helping patients and simultaneously avoiding legal battles.

Strategies to remain calm under pressure; to be clear and concise; and to know what is expected in courtroom battles.

Inevitably, some of your patients will need of emergency psychiatric services. These tips will help prepare you and your patients when a crisis unfolds.

The authors share evidence-based guidance for patient safety that minimizes suicide risk in medical settings.

In honor of National Foster Care Month, this article sheds light on these issues and provides information for psychiatrists caring for this vulnerable population.

The cure should not be worse than the disease; so must we be cautious about our response to COVID-19. More in this video with Harold J. Bursztajn, MD.

“I met Talia almost 20 years ago. It wasn’t the usual doctor-patient relationship formed in the setting of an outpatient clinic or general inpatient hospital.”

We often push thoughts of death far out of our awareness, but at the present time they unavoidably re-emerge. Can we learn something helpful from this?

Across the centuries, March has been an eventful month for the insanity defense on both sides of the Atlantic, and the McNaughten rule remains the prevalent standard to this day.

Not that long ago I read a news story about three women who had reported that the psychiatrist treating them had insisted on sex.