The Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry on the face of it, formally acknowledges that the work done by psychiatrists treating mentally ill offenders and those doing civil assessments constitutes a subspecialty. It is an odd subspecialty because court appearances are the only thing these two groups have in common. Furthermore there are state funded training programs in criminal forensic psychiatry with due recognition but there are no formalised training programs for psychiatrist doing civil assessments. We now have the odd situation … Continue reading Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry – does it matter?