The Program in Psychiatry and the Law was founded in 1979/1980 at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Its original mandate was to serve as a training program for young forensic psychiatrists, who would learn through performing, under supervision, medicolegal and ethical consultations with the trainees and staff at the Center.

To date the Program has trained eleven Chief Residents in Legal Psychiatry who form an informal nationwide group of Program associates; some still attend meetings. In the early 1980s this medicolegal training mandate was enlarged by the confluence of several conceptual streams.
The first was the problem in medicine as a whole of making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, in the teeth of the possibility of tragic outcomes. Models for guiding such decision making were first outlined in a seminal text.

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The Program in Psychiatry and The Law will meet on Wednesday mornings at 11:00 AM in a new room. We now meet in Room 201C on the second floor of the Farr Complex, just above old room 150 where we used ...

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 Thursday, January 10, 2008
Wednesday Meeting: LOCATION CHANGES
The Program in Psychiatry and The Law will meet on Wednesday mornings at 11:00 AM in a new room. We now meet in Room 201C on the second floor of the Farr Complex, just above old room 150 where we used ...
 Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Brand New Website launched today!
PIPATL has a clean modern interface! Please send comments and suggestions to the webmaster. Feedback already received includes the awkward spacing of the text on the front page, and the links ...
 
 
 
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