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JUDICIAL PSYCHIATRY

Is a science that studies the human psyche from the point of view of analyzing its internal processes.

SP has much in common with legal psychology and general psychology, but the subject of SP already.

The specificity of the subject of SP is that it studies and characterizes the pathological phenomena of the human psyche that deviate from the norm, while psychology deals with the study of the human psyche within the limits of the norm.

SP is a frontier science in which the synthesis of questions of a legal nature, medicine, general psychiatry is manifested.

When conducting forensic psychiatric examinations, forensic psychiatrists are guided by the rules and methods of general psychiatry and are obliged in their activities to observe the principles of humanity, legality. Before SP, as well as in front of any other science, there are a number of special tasks for which the SP expertise is conducted.

The aim of SP is to assess the mental state of a particular person in terms of his ability to be aware of his actions or to manage them. At the same time, SP is conducted precisely on questions (not in itself), but on behalf of the competent authorities in connection with the establishment of legal facts.

In accordance with these goals, SP faces a number of tasks, among which:

1. Conducting forensic psychiatric examination of the accused and suspects;
2. Conducting forensic psychiatric examination of victims;

3) advising the investigator

Concerning the peculiarities of the psyche

Persons under investigation, etc.

The goals of forensic psychiatric examination of victims and witnesses are the establishment of their ability to correctly perceive events and give objective testimony about them, establishing the physiological abilities of the person (hear, see).

In the civil process, forensic psychiatric examination establishes a person's legal capacity, i.e. The ability to understand the significance of the actions he performs and to guide them.

To perform the tasks set, the expert should be guided in the legal grounds for the examination, clearly aware of his rights and duties and offenses for which responsibility can follow, have a large clinical experience that helps diagnose a mental disorder and determine its severity. The question of sanity is a complicated and practically the most urgent issue when making an opinion of a forensic psychiatric examination, since not all persons with a mental disability are insane. The main methods of examination of mentally ill persons are:

1) clinical examination;

2) laboratory methods, including:

Electrophysical, biochemical

A study that promotes correct

Diagnosis of disease, clarifying the nature

Psychiatric disorder.

During the examination, psychiatrists conduct treatment measures using the tools used in general psychiatry.

In the course of compulsory treatment, all modern clinical methods are used, and rehabilitation measures are carried out. Criteria for cancellation of compulsory

Treatment is constantly being developed. After the end of compulsory treatment, the person is under the supervision of psychiatrists in psycho-neurological dispensaries at the place of residence. If the disease is aggravated or relapse, immediate hospitalization of the patient should be made. Psychoprophylactic measures are also carried out with convicts who exhibit various mental abnormalities while serving their sentence.