The course has the objective of developing the
particular conceptual framework applicable to most of the problems in the
field. As forensic psychopathology has a extraordinary wide range of factors
that must be considered in the approach to the field in order to rational and
systematic analysis of the variables involved in the evaluations. The course
will be mainly focused on criminal forensic psychopathology, including
competence to stand trial and to give informed consent, testimonial capacity,
insanity defence, diminished capacity, sentencing considerations, social
dangerousness, release of persons acquitted for insanity, and civil forensic
psychopathology, including legal legislation of psychiatry, including  involuntary commitment, right to treatment and
to refuse treatment, professional liability, ethical guidelines, selective
incapacitation.