Forensic Psychiatry

About Our Forensic Psychiatry Service

Providing Legal Consultation for Issues Involving Medical Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry

BIDMC's Forensic Psychiatry Service provides consultation to attorneys, courts, employers, insurers and agencies in relation to civil, criminal, correctional and regulatory issues. As an outgrowth of our setting in a general hospital and academic medical center, we emphasize legal issues involving medical psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. Our staff includes psychiatrists, psychologists and neuropsychologists.

Legal issues appropriate for consultation:

Competence and guardianship
Psychiatric disability determinations
Fitness for duty evaluations
Psychiatric injury including evaluation of PTSD and traumatic brain injury
Psychiatric malpractice
Involuntary commitment questions
Independent psychiatric evaluations
Insanity defense evaluations

For referrals please call the Forensic Psychiatry Service at 617-632-8410.