15. Psychiatry Committee

Psychiatry Investigation: 15 Years of Challenges

Psychiatry Investigation, founded in 2004 as the official English journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatry Association (KNPA), celebrates its 15th anniversary of continued publication. Prof. Byoung-Hoon Oh was the founding Editor-inChief. Since then, excellent scholars such as Professors ChanHyung Kim (2005–2009), Jun-Soo Kwon (2009–2011), Chang-Uk Lee (2012–2015), and Dai-Jin Kim (2016–2017) have...

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How should forensic psychiatry police itself? Guidelines and grievances: the AAPL Committee on Ethics.

Into this long-running dispute as to whether psychiatrists should testify as experts in forensic matters, the AAPL Committee on Ethics warmly welcomes our esteemed colleague, Alan A. Stone. He has raised "serious questions about the basic legitimacy of forensic psychiatry.,,2 At the initial presentation of his paper (the lead article in this Bulletin), he touched a "sensitive nerve" as evidence...

Editorial Committee

Germany without Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry—A 15 Month Real World Experience

Coercive treatment with antipsychotic drugs was commonly used in German psychiatric institutions until it became a topic of substantial medical, legal and ethical controversy. In 2011 and 2012, several landmark decisions by Germany’s Constitutional Court and Federal Supreme Court challenged this practice in all but life-threatening emergencies. In March 2013, the new legal provisions governing ...