@article{ref1,
title="Clinical characteristics and legal consequences of violent behavior: a case of bipolar disorder",
journal="Actas espanolas de psiquiatria",
year="2010",
author="Martin-Fumadó, C. and Xifró, A. and Carrión, M. I. and Gómez-Durán, Esperanza L.",
volume="38",
number="6",
pages="374-376",
abstract="The main subject in criminal proceedings is that of criminal responsibility. From this point of view, bipolar disorders sometimes seem to be a highly neglected subject in legal scholarship. Yet these disorders may affect the decision-making capacity across the spectrum of the law, especially when manic and psychotic symptoms are involved. This case studies a 37-year-old woman, diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder, who attacked the neighbor of her ex-husband during a manic episode with psychotic symptoms. Two types of these psychotic symptoms are specially important: ideation of harm and experiences of passivity/ influence on the body and thought insertion (threat/ control-override symptoms). Hostility against her ex-husband was also involved in the attack. Researchers have described all those symptoms as important predictors of violence, and they have determinant legal correlates. Keywords: Bipolar disorder, threat/control-override symptoms, legal correlates, criminal responsibility.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1139-9287",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}