July 29, 2011

forensic psychiatry: assessing the minds of murderers

Speakers:
Dr Seena Fazel, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Dr Fin Larkin, Consultant Psychiatrist in the Personality Disorder Directorate, Broadmoor Hospital

With the spotlight on the actions of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway, the SMC invited experts in forensic psychiatry to brief journalists on how psychiatrists assess the mental health of those who have committed murder and other violent crime.