Citation

Kieser C, Fähndrich E. Psychiatr. Prax. 2003; 30(3): 127-132.

Vernacular Title

Wie geht die "Versorgungspsychiatrie" mit gewalttatigen Patienten um? Im

Affiliation

Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin. christian.kieser@vivantes.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-2003-38604

PMID

12692738

Abstract

ISSUE: In psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinics that are responsible for supplying care for a region, how often are patients transferred to forensic psychiatric hospitals? Is there a tendency to "send off" aggressive or threatening patients as quickly as possible? METHOD: In the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinic responsible for the Berlin's Neukölln district, for one year (2000) all patients who committed a severe criminal offence immediately before or during their in-patient treatment were registered for observation in 2000. The steps of investigation and further legal consequences were recorded. RESULTS: During the period of observation, 0.1 percent of the patients were transferred from the clinic to a forensic psychiatric hospital. Weeks or months after their regular release, 0.4 percent of the patients were committed to a forensic department. The court ordered an ambulant psychiatric evaluation for 0.5 percent of the patients. CONCLUSION: Only a few patients were transferred to forensic psychiatric hospitals. A tendency to "send off" aggressive patients as soon as possible, thus abusing forensic psychiatry, was not found in this study.

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