
Forensic Psychiatry
Head
Head of the Forensic Psychiatry
apl. Prof. Dr. Harald Dreßing
Phone: +49 621 1703-2941
Research and Administrative Building, 4th Floor, Room 408
Secretariat: Martina Herbig E-Mail
Phone: +49 0621 1703-2381
Main Medical Building, 1st Floor, Room 155
Description
The Section Forensic Psychiatry has two main objectives: First: Providing forensic psychiatric assessment (criminal responsibility, legal prognosis, etc.) and training of the interns in forensic psychiatry.
The second objective includes research activities as the system analysis of forensic mental health care institutions and treatment strategies in the European Union Member states (EUPRIS) (together with WG Mental Health Services Research). Stalking: Epidemiology of stalking, evaluation of a treatment programme for stalking victims, training course for professionals working with women victims of stalking (Daphne programme), stress-responsive systems and stalking (together with WG Stress-related disorders). Compulsory admission and compulsory treatment in psychiatry (together with RG Mental Health Services Research). Implications of fMRI for the law and the routine practice of forensic psychiatry: neuroimaging of offenders with psychopathy; neuroimaging of sexual offenders (together with the director of the CIMH).
Institut für Gerichtliche Psychologie und Psychatrie, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlands
Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
Institut für Sexualforschung und Forensische Psychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Klinik für Forensische Psychiatrie Klingenmünster, Bezirksverband Pfalz
Klinik Nette-Gut für Forensische Psychiatrie an der Rhein-Mosel-Fachklinik Andernach
Klinik für Forensiche Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie am PZN Wiesloch
Cooperation partner
Institute for Criminologiy at Heidelberg University (Subprojekt 3 and Subprojekt 5)
- Prof. Dr. iur. Dieter Dölling (Director of the Institute for Criminology)
Institute for Gerontology at the Heidelberg University (Subprojekt 2)
- Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. Andreas Kruse (Dipl.-Psych. Ordinarius, Director of the Institute for Gerontology)
Full Professor for criminology, youth criminal law and enforcement, Universität Gießen (Subprojekt 3)
- Prof. Dr. iur. Britta Bannenberg (Professor of Criminology, youth criminal law, enforcement JLU Gießen)
Education
This discipline is taught as part of a teaching assistantship in the Law Faculty at the University of Mannheim - see Education / Additional subjects / For Law students
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit (ZI) - https://www.zi-mannheim.de