Forensic Psychiatry

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).