[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Chair: Dr Ronan Mullaney
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Vice Chair: Dr Damian Smith
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Forensic Psychiatry is a sub-speciality of psychiatry that deals with the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of mentally disordered offenders.
Aims
- To improve psychiatric care for all mentally disordered offenders
- To improve training and research in Forensic Psychiatry
- To provide a forensic resource for expert opinion to the Government and other agencies in matters of civil and criminal law where they interact with Psychiatry
Dates of upcoming meetings in 2023
- 10am on Friday, 27th January
- 10am on Friday, 28th April
- 10am on Friday, 25th August
- 10am on Friday, 17th November
Meetings take place online via zoom video conferencing.
College Faculty/SIG and committee meetings can garner 1 internal or external CPD credit per meeting up to a maximum of 10 credits per PCS year.
To contact the faculty
To contact the faculty or if you would like to join, please email Helen Murray, hmurray@irishpsychiatry.ie or call (01) 6618450.
Previous Winners of Dr Charles Smith Essay Competition
- 2018 – Dr Marie Lynch – “It behoves psychiatrists to break the Goldwater rule where to do so would be in the public interest”. Discuss.
- 2017 – Dr Fiona Lemasney – ‘Should architecture be therapeutic?’
- 2016 – Dr Owen O’Sullivan – “Guilty until proven autistic!” – Autistic defendants should be considered less responsible for criminal acts – Discuss
- 2014 – Dr Catherine Conway – “Mad, bad and dangerous to know. Psychiatric illness in film and theatre”
- 2013 – Dr Jane O’Connor – “Psychiatrists should be held responsible for their patients’ actions”
- 2012 – Dr John Lally – “Liberty or Dignity – Community Treatment Orders and Rights”
- 2011 – Dr Ronan Mullaney – “The room with no view” – Has seclusion had its day?
- 2010 – Dr Eric Kelleher – “Suicide Science and Structured Professional Judgement”
- 2009 – Dr Brian O’Donoghue – “Out of Mind, Out of Sight – Prison and Mental Illness in Ireland”
- 2008 – Dr Anne Doherty – ‘Shunned: Who gets in – who gets out’ Barriers to care in the mental health service
- 2007 – Dr Emer Rutledge – “Balancing Risk and Rights: A New Era in Mental Health Law”
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]