Personalized Psychiatry
ISSN: 2720-7048
Psychiatria Spersonalizowana / Personalized Psychiatry
Current issue Archive Manuscripts accepted About the journal Editorial board Abstracting and indexing Subscription Contact Instructions for authors Ethical standards and procedures
Editorial System
Submit your Manuscript
1/2025
vol. 4
 
Share:
Share:
abstract:
Review paper

Bipolar affective disorder – the chameleon of forensic psychiatry

Ryszard Kujawski
1

  1. Wojewódzki Szpital Zdrowia Psychicznego w Świeciu Regional Mental Health Hospital in Świecie
Personalized Psychiatry 2025; 4: e28–e39
Online publish date: 2025/04/04
View full text Get citation
 
PlumX metrics:
Personalization is inherent in forensic psychiatric judgments. Experts provide opinions on a specific person suffering from specific mental disorders in the context of a legal problem that is individual to them. Forensic psychiatric opinions in bipolar mood disorders pose particular difficulties in judgments. The paper discusses the difficulties of forensic psychiatric judgments in criminal proceedings in bipolar disorder (BD). The conceptual scope of BD, the history of the term and Polish views on BD judgments are described. Attention is paid to the judgment ideology and the specificity of adjudicating in BD (changes in phases over a long period of charges, at different stages of criminal proceedings, reliability of data in less severe disorders, repeating forensic psychiatric examinations, the validity of forensic psychiatric observation and internment). The issue of simulation is raised. Adjudicating in specific clinical conditions and differential diagnosis of BD are discussed.
keywords:

bipolar disorder, psychiatric diagnosis, forensic-psychiatric evaluation, forensic psychiatry

Quick links
© 2025 Termedia Sp. z o.o.
Developed by Bentus.