Slammer Psychiatry
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I don't work in corrections though I do work on a forensic psychiatric unit. One of my mentors does work in correctional psychiatry and that branch of psychiatry is dealt with in forensic psychiatry. I often talk with him, so I feel I'm in the loop. (He didn't write the book below).
Best book I know of...
http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEcQ8wIwAA#
Charles Scott is a giant in the field of forensic psychiatry and it's more specialized branch-correctional psychiatry. (Some say he's the next guy in line to take over Resnick's crown when the "king" retires.)
I have the first edition book, not the second. The first edition book is excellent. I can also tell you that Scott is an excellent lecturer and teaches many of the clinically relevant details that many academic texts rarely touch. E.g. Scott was one of the first psychiatrists to publish accounts and mention in conventions that prisoners were abusing Seroquel. For years, several doctors were noticing this but were not writing of their accounts in journals. This lead to the Seroquel abuse problem not being addressed for years. (Many still do not address it).
The field is a different beast vs. regular clinical practice. Suicidal threats, for example, are often taken seriously but in a not so caring manner (e.g. the prisoner, depending on the state, is put into a paper gown, a room that is uncomfortably cold and bright, and kept in the room until they are no longer "suicidal.") Many prisons do not offer any medication developed in the last 30 years. Prisoners, who have all the free time in the world, have taken every single medication and teach each other if the med happens to get them high, and it's to a degree where most doctors are not aware. E.g. you can get a buzz off of Cogentin, just that most people will not abuse it because there's better stuff out in the community, but from a prisoner's perspective, and with a naive doctor, a prisoner can get as much cogentin as they want because the naive doctor doesn't know he's getting the patients high.
Best book I know of...
http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEcQ8wIwAA#
Charles Scott is a giant in the field of forensic psychiatry and it's more specialized branch-correctional psychiatry. (Some say he's the next guy in line to take over Resnick's crown when the "king" retires.)
I have the first edition book, not the second. The first edition book is excellent. I can also tell you that Scott is an excellent lecturer and teaches many of the clinically relevant details that many academic texts rarely touch. E.g. Scott was one of the first psychiatrists to publish accounts and mention in conventions that prisoners were abusing Seroquel. For years, several doctors were noticing this but were not writing of their accounts in journals. This lead to the Seroquel abuse problem not being addressed for years. (Many still do not address it).
The field is a different beast vs. regular clinical practice. Suicidal threats, for example, are often taken seriously but in a not so caring manner (e.g. the prisoner, depending on the state, is put into a paper gown, a room that is uncomfortably cold and bright, and kept in the room until they are no longer "suicidal.") Many prisons do not offer any medication developed in the last 30 years. Prisoners, who have all the free time in the world, have taken every single medication and teach each other if the med happens to get them high, and it's to a degree where most doctors are not aware. E.g. you can get a buzz off of Cogentin, just that most people will not abuse it because there's better stuff out in the community, but from a prisoner's perspective, and with a naive doctor, a prisoner can get as much cogentin as they want because the naive doctor doesn't know he's getting the patients high.
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Thanks for the info, guys.
