This book includes the practical cases of Dr. Ho Mei-yee, an authority in forensic psychiatry, and analyzes major cases affecting the development of mental health services in Hong Kong, presenting a three-dimensional picture of the development of forensic psychiatry in Hong Kong.
Criminal Odd Case Deconstruction: Strange Cases Adapted from Five Real Cases of Odd Difficult Psychosis
, each with twists and turns and bizarre psychiatric symptoms. Diet pills can cause schizophrenia? Is raising too many animals the blame for animal hoarding? Is there even a kind of mental illness that can make patients write, direct, and act out murder scenes by themselves?
There is definitely more to know about psychosis than you know!
Opening the history book
of forensic psychiatry, the development of mental health services in Hong Kong can be described as "blood lessons"! How did the 1982 Ann On Kindergarten massacre and the 2010 Kwai Sheng Tung Village serial murders and wounding affect Hong Kong's policy?
However, in Taiwan and South Korea, where there is no forensic psychiatry, when they encounter serious violent incidents of mentally ill patients, what kind of controversy has arisen in court and society?