Forensic psychiatry

Author: Zeng Xucheng
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The purpose of writing this easy-to-understand Forensic Psychiatry is to provide theoretical basis and case-handling guidelines for public security and judicial organs when dealing with cases related to mental illnesses. It aims to help students in law and court schools, as well as public security and judicial cadres, understand the basic knowledge of forensic psychiatry, such as medical terminology, common symptoms of mental illnesses, etiology, symptom manifestations, and legal capacity assessments related to mental illnesses, forensic psychiatry evaluation procedures, the materials public security and judicial cadres should collect before evaluation, how to assess and apply evaluation conclusions as case-handling evidence, how to identify feigned mental illness, and medical guardianship for mental illness patients. This will undoubtedly play a positive role in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of mental illness patients and ensuring the smooth progress of reform and opening-up as well as the "Four Modernizations" construction.
Additionally, forensic psychiatry is a new interdisciplinary field, and it is still in its early stages in China. There are many issues that urgently need in-depth discussion and research in public security and judicial practice to continuously enrich and improve it. At the same time, reasonable suggestions should be proposed in a timely manner based on problems identified in the practice of forensic psychiatry evaluations, for reference by legislative bodies, so that relevant legal provisions in China can be more complete and more practical.