The evolution of forensic psychiatry: history, current developments, future directions

Dr. Robert Sadoff's The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatry is extraordinarily unique in that it is not intended to be a textbook or a guide to forensic psychiatry. Instead, this book is a fascinating mix of historical beginnings, current developments, representative subspecialties of psychiatry, and several allied disciplines and their impact on forensic psychiatry. Furthermore, it also includes neuroscientific research and how it translates to civic and criminal case work. Judges, attorneys, law professors and a police scientist all weigh in on the influence of the interdisciplinary research these forensic scientists have had on the justice system.

Cover; The Evolution of Forensic PsychiatryHistory, Current Developments, Future Directions; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Section One: History; 1. American Forensic Psychiatry Begins: Setting Standards; 2. Development of Forensic Psychiatry Training at Temple University and Services in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: A Memoir; 3. The Modern Era of Forensic Psychiatry; Section Two: Current Developments: Teaching Forensic Psychiatry; 4. The Teaching Roles of the Forensic Psychiatrist.

5. The Program in Psychiatry and the Law: A New Direction in Forensic Training and Experience6. Reflections of a Forensic Teacher; 7. Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training: Fundamentals for the Future; 8. The Development of a Fully Integrated Forensic Psychiatry Residency Within a General Department of Psychiatry; Section Three: Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry; 9. "The Child Is Father of the Man": Mutual Influences of Child and Adult Forensic Psychiatry; 10. Childhood Maltreatment and Chronic Unmediated Stress: A New View for Forensic Psychiatry.

11. Social Policy, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Forensic Psychiatry12. Juvenile …