Article archive / April 1, 2013
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 8. Source pages: 16.
Tulane Lessons from the Darker Side of Forensic Psychiatry April 12 – 14, New Orleans
The Tulane University Center for Continuing Education and Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will present “NOTORIOUS: Lessons from the Darker Side of Forensic Psychiatry,” on April 12 to14, 2013. The conference will be held at the Westin Canal Place Hotel in New Orleans.
The three-day training experience is intended to help participants understand the most current classification systems used to identify serial killers and assassins, current risk assessment measures used to determine a patient’s dangerousness, and to describe the “culture of silence” and its influence on reporting child sexual abuse.
Topics include “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Sandusky and the Culture of Silence;” “American Assassins: A Typological Review;” “Crime of Singular Atrocity: The Leopold and Loeb Case and the Birth of Modern Forensic Psychiatry,” and “Firearms, the Mentally Ill and the Law.” The Fourteenth Chester B. Scrignar, MD Lecture will be “Scale of Evil,” presented by Michael Stone, MD.
The Tulane Forensic Behavioral Science Institute is a non-profit interdisciplinary program to promote research in forensic behavioral sciences and opportunities for professional development in the community. John Thompson, Jr. MD is the Institute’s Executive Director and Gina Manguno-Mire, PhD is the Director.
Fees are $350 for physicians, attorneys and psychologists, $250 for Health Society Members, $275 for Allied Health individuals.
For more information contact Tulane U. Center for Continuing Education or register online at http://Tulane.edu/cce/
This article is part of a historical newspaper archive. Read the original issue for its original layout, photographs and graphics.