Psychiatry For Lawyers (Medico-Legal Practitioner Series)

Psychiatry is more often involved with the law than any other medical speciality and in more diverse ways. It has an input into every area of medicine. This book is a guide for lawyers to psychiatric terminology and the criteria for the most frequently encountered psychiatric disorders. For psychiatrists and other health professionals, it is a guide to understanding legal thought and attitudes. The aim is to help lawyers and psychiatrists and allied professionals to work together efficiently and harmoniously.