In psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice, ‘boundaries' delineate the personal and the
professional roles and the differences that should characterise the interpersonal encounters …

Forensic psychiatry, as a medical specialty, perhaps understandably leans toward beneficence
or welfare as its main ethical underpinning. However, the special nature of the art or …

… Sameer P Sarkar, forensic psychiatrist3 … Twemlow S, Sacco F, Gies M, Evans R, Ewbank R,
Fonagy P. Creating a peaceful school: a controlled study of an elementary school intervention …

Under current proposals for new mental health legislation, psychiatrists increasingly will be
involved in tribunal processes examining the grounds for compulsory detention and treatment…

In the UK and Europe forensic psychiatry has two practical applications: the interface
between psychiatry and the law and the treatment of mentally disordered offenders. In the UK, …

In this paper, I will suggest that healthcare institutions are intolerant of dissent, and use
scapegoating as a defence. When dissent involves criticism of the organization, including whistle-…

In this article, we discuss the implications of a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
decision about the use of retained DNA profiles in criminal cases. Met with polar but …

In this paper, I describe and discuss the complexities of being a therapist in a maximum
security forensic psychiatric hospital, working with patients who have committed acts of serious …

Codes of ethics have existed for medicine since the time of Hippocrates. However, a written
code of ethics (like a written constitution) has so far eluded British psychiatry. In this editorial …

Both men and women are known to suffer from post-natal depression. However, there has
been little attention paid to the psychodynamic genesis of post-natal depression in fathers. In …