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Law and Mental Disorder: A Comprehensive and Practical Approach is an encyclopedic medico-legal overview of forensics issues. With 60 chapters, and over 50 contributors, the topics range from an introduction to the legal system for psychiatrists, to pharmacological treatments for sex offenders, to the pathways to conduct disorder amongst children. The book has been written for a professional audience of psychiatrists, resident psychiatrists, and related heath professionals as well as legal professionals (judges, lawyers), and justice system professionals.

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Hy Bloom, LLB, MD, FRCP(C) is a forensic psychiatrist and lawyer who assesses individuals who have mental illnesses and outstanding criminal charges. Dr Bloom has published on a number of topics in psychiatry and the law. Richard D. Schneider is a Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, where he presides at Toronto's Mental Health Court, and alternate chair of the Ontario and Nunavut Review Boards. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He was recently appointed honorary president of the Canadian Psychological Association. He has published extensively in the area of mental disorder and the law.

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