ADHD for Non-psychiatrist

Liability for the psychiatrist expert witness.

OBJECTIVE An increasing number of general psychiatrists are acting as expert witnesses in the legal system. The purpose of this article is to help psychiatrists who are interested in doing forensic work by informing them of the risks entailed. METHOD The author reviews the medical and legal literature about expert witness immunity. RESULTS The author explains the traditional concept of expe...

Sigmund Freud: Forensic Psychiatrist

As a forensic psychiatrist, I have written extensively about my own routine application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic principles to my practice. 1-7 However, until very recently, I was unaware that Freud, in addition to supplying the indispensable theoretical underpinning, had made direct contributions to forensic psychiatry. Sigmund Freud requires no introduction. His theories and their th...

Practitioner review: Non-pharmacological treatments for ADHD: a lifespan approach.

BACKGROUND Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic and pervasive developmental disorder that is not restricted to the childhood years. METHODS This paper reviews non-pharmacological interventions that are available at present for preschoolers, school-age children, adolescents and adults. RESULTS The most appropriate intervention for preschoolers is parent training. For ...

[The psychiatrist and terrorism].

Child Psychiatrist and Paediatrician

I T is currently fashionable to be in favour of inter-disciplinary coderation, but this attitude is a comParatively recent innovation in the Medical field. Doctors have been very resistant to the notion of working with Flon-medical colleagues on anything lke an equal basis; and the author can ^ember very clearly the solemn a,jning that he received from a senior Queague, in 1939, of possible Gen...