The Compleat Forensic Psychiatrist
AMES ROBEY M.D.1, and
WILLIAM J. BOGARD M.D.2
1 Director, Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Box 2060, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106
2 Staff psychiatrist, Ypsilanti State Hospital, Ypsilanti, Mich.
The compleat forensic psychiatrist, as described by the authors, must not only have competence in many areas—pre-trial evaluation, post-trial treatment and follow-up, training, and research—but must be able to communicate his ideas to lay people as well as professionals. To help attract able persons into this field a clear identity and role for the forensic psychiatrist is suggested; eventually an American Academy of Forensic Psychiatrists and Board certification in this subspecialty should be considered.
