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Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 17;89:101908. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101908. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, political events have reignited contentious debates about psychiatry and democratic governance. This discourse has largely centred around the ethics and morality of public commentary, particularly in relation to the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule. Yet, few studies have examined the practical implications of health-related limitations due to mental illness in national leadership and the constitutional and legal provisions that surround these issues, including voluntary or involuntar...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Alexander Smith Stefan Theil Stephen D Hart Michael Liebrenz Source Type: research

Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 17;89:101909. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101909. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe responsibility of persons with brain disorders who commit offenses may depend on how their disorders alter brain mechanisms for culpability. Criminal behavior can result from brain disorders that alter social cognition including a neuromoral system of intuitive moral emotions that are absolute (deontological) normative codes and that includes an emotion-mediated evaluation of intentionality. This neuromoral system has its hub in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) with other frontal, anterior temporal-amyg...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Mario F Mendez Source Type: research

Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 17;89:101908. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101908. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn recent years, political events have reignited contentious debates about psychiatry and democratic governance. This discourse has largely centred around the ethics and morality of public commentary, particularly in relation to the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule. Yet, few studies have examined the practical implications of health-related limitations due to mental illness in national leadership and the constitutional and legal provisions that surround these issues, including voluntary or involuntar...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Alexander Smith Stefan Theil Stephen D Hart Michael Liebrenz Source Type: research

A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 12;89:101906. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101906. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper provides a theoretical rationale for using the constructs of procedural justice, trust and self-determination as a framework to guide the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ). The overarching purpose of TJ is to provide therapeutic outcomes to all participants in the legal system. This paper proposes that in legal decision-making, running a procedurally just process that generates trust amongst participants and allows the parties to experience self-determination, creates a dynamic akin...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Jill A Howieson Source Type: research

A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 12;89:101906. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101906. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper provides a theoretical rationale for using the constructs of procedural justice, trust and self-determination as a framework to guide the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ). The overarching purpose of TJ is to provide therapeutic outcomes to all participants in the legal system. This paper proposes that in legal decision-making, running a procedurally just process that generates trust amongst participants and allows the parties to experience self-determination, creates a dynamic akin...
Source: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry - July 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Jill A Howieson Source Type: research