Overview :Evaluating and treating patients with violent ideations and behaviors can be frustrating, anxiety-provoking, and even dangerous, as errors i... Read More
Overview :In their latest collaboration, Clinical Manual of Psychiatry and Law, noted forensic psychiatrist Dr. Robert Simon and legal scholar Daniel ... Read More
Overview :The anxieties and uncertainties created by the increased threat of being sued for malpractice can interfere with the psychiatrist's provisio... Read More
Overview :Today's psychiatrists practice in an environment that poses difficult challenges. Both treatment time and duration are limited by insurance ... Read More
Overview :"Why did the defendant do it?"Mental health professionals are asked to help courts answer this question. To serve justice, the law calls for... Read More
Overview :Patient suicide is an unavoidable occupational hazard of psychiatric practice. Indeed, it is the rare clinician who does not struggle, even ... Read More
Overview :The second edition of The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management has been extensively updated and exp... Read More
Overview :The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001 turned PTSD into a household word. But posttraumatic stress disorder has b... Read More
Overview :Robert Simon's Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior is that rare title that... Read More