Objective. The triarchic model posits that psychopathy is a combination of phenotypes related to boldness, meanness and disinhibition.

Organisational consultation is widespread in the National Health Service (NHS), but little is known about its impact. To evaluate the impact of a psychodynamically informed consultation to a high-security hospital ward.

... One of the unique selling points of forensic psychotherapy is that central to its work is a psychoanalytic consideration of the unconscious mind and the internal world of the patient.

Since the late 1990s, in England and in Wales, there has been increasing interest in the particular challenges of managing offenders with personality disorder (PD). In 1999, a specialist hostel, managed by the probation service but with a high level of forensic mental health service input, was opened to high-risk PD offenders.

A comparison between a National Health Service trust and a charitable company

To examine cognitive function in chronic fatigue syndrome. Twenty patients with chronic fatigue syndrome recruited from primary care and 20 matched normal controls were given

There has been a substantial increase in the number of Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs)and hence the cost of administering the tribunal system.

We report a postal survey of all forensic and a random sample of general psychiatrists in England and Wales, concerning current and future contacts with the criminal justice system.