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Dutch training and research in forensic psychiatry in a European perspective

✍ Scribed by Kris Goethals; Ellen van Lier

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 71 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0957-9664
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.731

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✦ Synopsis

In the Netherlands, only one of the fi ve psychiatrists and professors of adult forensic psychiatry has his chair in the faculty of medicine. All the others are based in a faculty of law. Forensic psychiatry is neither a subspecialty of psychiatry, nor is it a mandatory part of the curriculum. Trainees can choose an optional course in forensic psychiatry, but only three afternoons are dedicated to forensic psychiatry as an essential part of the whole psychiatry training programme. So, a general psychiatrist may start working in forensic psychiatry without any forensic training or work experience.

When visiting conferences or reading articles, we noticed that most research about offender patients is done by research psychologists, even though most of those patients have a disorder with an important biological (medical) aetiology,

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