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| CRIM3100-1 | Criminal Psychopathology | |||||||||||
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| Duration : | 45h Th | |||||||||||
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| Holder(s) : | Patrick Papart | |||||||||||
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| Course contents : | After a short historical survey of legal psychiatry the course considers major psychiatric disorders and their possible relation to criminal and dangerous behaviour. We will study in turn: psychoses, mood disorders, anxious disorders, organic mental disorders, disorders related to the absorption of psychoactive substances, disorders affecting the control of impulses, and paraphilia. Cases in which the law that protect mental patients and the law on social defence apply are also discussed and illustrated with examples of psychiatric expertise. | |||||||||||
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| Course objective : | To study the relationship between mental diseases and dangerous and criminal behaviour. | |||||||||||
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| Prerequisites : | Notions of psychiatry | |||||||||||
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| Organization : | Structure of the course: overhead projection with videos. Répétitions : Further training for students: debates on the videos. | |||||||||||
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| Written notes : | Syllabus Advised further reading: Psychopathology and Violent Crime (A. Skodol, American Psychiatric Press, 1998). | |||||||||||
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| Assessment : | Written examination | |||||||||||
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| Contacts : | - Teacher: Prof. P. PAPART, CHU Sart Tilman - 04/ 366 72 15 - Secretary: Mme C. Gayetot, CHU Sart Tilman - 04/ 366 79 60 | |||||||||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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