Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Principles and Practice

This textbook, one of the first, provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between psychiatry and legal medicine in the older population. Sections reviewing evaluation, civil and criminal topics, and numerous other areas such as risk management, will help physicians, attorneys, and other professionals in their work with the elderly. Jacob C. Holzer M.D. is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School based at McLean's Hospital, Belmont, MA. He completed medical school at Tufts and did his psychiatry residency training at Yale Medical School. He completed a neuroscience fellowship at Yale Medical School and a neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified by the ABPN in Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He serves on a number of committees at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He is the author of over 50 scientific publications, abstracts, and book chapters. Robert Kohn, MD, MPhil is a Professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, based at The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI. Dr. Kohn is the Director of the Brown University Fellowship Training Program in Geriatric Psych iatry. He is a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. He is board certified by the ABPN in Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. He completed his medical school training at the University of Illinois and his psychiatry training at Brown University. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications and book chapters, as well as the editor of two textbooks in psychiatry. Patricia R. Recupero J.D., M.D. is a Clinical Professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior based at Butler Hospital, Providence, RI. Dr. Recupero is President and CEO of Butler Hospital. She obtained her law degree at the Boston College Law School and her medical school training at Brown University. She obtained her psychiatry training at Brown University. She is board cert ified by the ABPN in Psychiatry, Addictions Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry. She is the former President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems. Dr. Recupero serves of the Council of Psychiatry and Law of the American Psychiatry Association. She is the author of over 43 scientific publications and book chapters.