Forensic Psychiatry
The University of Regensburg
The Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Unit at the Regensburg District Clinical Centre
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The Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Unit was established in May 2004. Prof Dr Michael Osterheider was appointed as its head.
The Unit focuses on teaching, research and professional training. The Unit co-operates with the local high secure psychiatric hospital clinically and scholarly.
From winter semester 2004/2005 onwards the Unit offers the following lectures (L) and seminars (S):
L: Introduction to forensic psychiatry for students of medicine, psychology and law.
S: Introduction to criminal psychology.
S: Sexual deviance.
S: Forensic social psychology.
S: Research methods within forensic settings.
Research
The scope of research of the Unit falls into three main areas:
- neurobiology, -physiology and –psychology of sexual deviance, aggression, violence and impulsivity,
- development of deviance and comparative case analysis and
- forensic psychopathology.
Further projects deal with quality management and with after-care for forensic outpatients.
The Unit is currently developing close ties with facilities for child and adolescent psychiatry, centres for the treatment of addiction, police experts on case analysis, forensic pathologists and with the Chair of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Law Faculty of the University of Regensburg .
The Unit offers the full remit of expert evidence in forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology for criminal and civil law cases, e.g. assessing the criminal responsibility of defendants or the credibility of witness testimony, as well as offering its services to correctional institutions: assessing the risk for recidivism in cases of probational release from prison or high secure psychiatric hospitals.
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