Forensic Psychiatry

Limbic brain

• controls nonverbal reactions

• amygdala = first part of the brain to receive emotional information + react to it

• takes in all incoming stimuli to decide if it’s threatening or not

How body language helps a TED Talk go viral

• it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it

• Jazz hands rock

• scripts kill your charisma

• smiling makes you look smarter

• you have seven seconds

Psychiatrist

• write prescriptions

• general medicine

• medical doctor

• MD, medical school

• residency

• hospital→children, adolescents, adults w/ behavior disorders

Psychologist

• PhD or PsyD (Doctor of psychology)

• science of psychological research

• diagnose mental and emotional disorders

• pediatrician (primary physician) signs referral to them

• can’t write script for blood work or medications

• address behavioral patterns

Forensic Psychiatry

• Focuses on interface of law + mental health

• may include psychiatric consultation in a wide variety of legal matters

• expert testimony

• clinical work w/ perpetrators + victims

Antisocial Personality

• chronic lack of remorse

• conscience doesn’t weigh heavy

• able to justify their behavior w/out feeling

Rejected Suitor

• waver between overtures of reconciliation & revenge (if revenge→result)

• Narcissistic, believe it’s the only relationship they will have

• >80% have personality disorder

• need therapy, involves helping him or her come to terms w/the end of the relationship

Intimacy Seeker

• put victim on pedestal

• quest for true love, think it will ultimately be successful

→incarcerations and restraining orders don’t work

• delusional, believing their love was reciprocated

• delusion must be treated

Incompetent

• Intellectually limited, socially awkward

• doesn’t pick up on social cues

• rebuffed

• socially inept, lack sufficiency in interpersonal + courting skill norms

• hopes persistent behavior will change woman’s mind

• DON’T put victim on pedestal

• Restraining order works, because they are rule followers, but will likely relapse b/c they’re not smart

Resentful Stalker

• not looking for a relationship

• wronged, humiliated, victim →thrive on having a sense of power + control over victim

• NO personality disorder

• have the mental capacity to understand right from wrong

• responsive to court orders

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Predatory Stalker

• sexual deviants

• pleasure from planning

• don’t necessarily know victim

• victim may not know she’s being stalked

• violates Mullen’s definition b/c they watch, but don’’t try to communicate

• incarceration b/c so many convictions

Highest percent of assaults ?

Rejected suitor: 71% threats & 54% assaults

Predatory: 33% threats, 50% assaults

Psychopaths

• lack of empathy

• innate condition

• calculated when engaging in criminal behavior

• appear normal, but no emotional attachment/connection to others. Only have friendships that benefit them. no remorse for anyone.

• small amount of evidence at the crime scene

Both

• Antisocial personality disorder

• violent

• treated w/medication by psychiatrists

• potentially demonstrate MacDonald’s triad of psychopathy

Sociopaths

• impulsive

• result from upbringing

• erratic behavior

• leaves evidence behind and doesn’t plan ahead when engaging in criminal behavior

• empathize w/close friends and family and feel guilty if they hurt someone close to them