Alan Felthous & Henning Saß 
The International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law, Volume II [PDF ebook] 

Reflecting the work of an international panel of experts, the International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary look at key aspects of the development and etiology of psychopathic disorders, current methods of intervention, treatment and management, and how these disorders impact decision making in civil and criminal law.

A propos de l’auteur

Alan R. Felthous, M.D., is Professor and Director of
Forensic Psychiatry in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry,
Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor
of Sciences degree at the University of Washington and his medical
doctorate at the University of Louisville School of Medicine before
interning at Roosevelt Hospital in New York city and completing a
residency in psychiatry at Mc Lean Hospital and Harvard Medical
School. After two years as a staff psychiatrist at the Naval
Regional Medical Center in Oakland, Dr. Felthous joined the staff
at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. For nearly 15 years,
he was Chief o the Forensic Services, the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch
in Galveston, where he was the Marie B. Gale centennial Professor
of Psychiatry. Before coming to Saint Louis University, Dr.
Felthous was Director of Forensic Psychiatry at Southern Illinoi8s
University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Chester
Mental Health Center, the maximum security forensic hospital for
the state of Illinois. Dr. Felthous is President of the American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Senior Editor of behavioral
Science sand the Law and Past President of the American board of
Forensic Psychiatry. His research, scholarly and teaching interests
focus on clinical aggression, the psychopathology of criminal
behavior, legal requirements of clinicians in managing potentially
violent patients, and jail and prison suicide.

Henning Saß, M.D., is currently Medical Director and
Chairman of the board of Directors at the University Hospital of
the University of Technology (RWTH) in Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle,
Germany. He studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Vienna
and Mainz. After passing the state examination in Kiel and
receiving his medical doctorate in Mainz, he was a resident in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. Having
completed his training in clinical psychiatry and in psychotherapy,
he concentrated on forensic psychiatry, general psychopathology,
diagnostic research and personality disorders. His habilitation on
Psychopathie, Soziopathie, and Dissozialitat (Psychopathy,
Sociopathy and Dissocial Behaviors) was published as a Springer
monograph in 1987. He was then appointed Professor of Forensic
Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, after
which he was the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the
medical faculty in Aachen for 10 years, before he was appointed to
his current position. His research interests remain focused on
forensic psychiatry, especially in the field of personality
disorders. During his academic career, he was President of the
German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nervous Diseases
(DGPPN) and of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP). He
is editor or co-editor of several scientific journals and member of
numerous boards of scientific organizations including the European
Brain Council and the Research Council of the German Ministry for
Science, Research and technology.