ABSTRACT
This study describes a survey of sentenced prisoners who were transferred to psychiatric hospitals in South Wales under 8.47 of the Mental Health Act of 1983 (England & Wales) over a three-year period. During this time there were 29 such transfers of 25 prisoners and all were male. Fifty per cent of these prisoners who became patients had a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia, 13 per cent of recurrent depressive disorder, 4 per cent of a drug-induced psychosis, 4 per cent of hypomania and 6.6 per cent had some form of personality disorder. Forty-four per cent were returned to prison to complete their sentence once their mental disorder was treated.
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Mental Disorders/therapy , Prisoners/psychology , Adult , Data Collection , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Patient Readmission , Patient Transfer , Prisoners/statistics & numerical data , Retrospective Studies , WalesABSTRACT
A series of male victims of rape are presented who were identified following referral to a Forensic Psychiatric Service. In addition to being victims they were also offenders in their own right. The 22 male rape victims represent 12.5 per cent of male referrals to the service over a six-month period.
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Rape/psychology , Referral and Consultation , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child Abuse, Sexual , Forensic Psychiatry , Homosexuality, Male , Humans , Male , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Approximately 25% of patients with schizophrenia remain actively psychotic despite treatment with conventional antipsychotic medication. Many of these patients become new long-stay patients or are frequent readmissions to psychiatric hospitals. This article reviews some of the causes of treatment resistance and the management of this group of patients.
