TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Clinical characteristics and legal consequences of violent behavior: a case of bipolar disorder
JO  - Actas espanolas de psiquiatria
A1  - Martin-Fumadó, C.
A1  - Xifró, A.
A1  - Carrión, M. I.
A1  - Gómez-Durán, Esperanza L.
SP  - 374
EP  - 376
VL  - 38
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1139-9287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -