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About the Event

This webinar discusses how fitness to plead is assessed, and to what extent does an invisible disability affect the culpability of an individual for a criminal offence.

About the Speakers

Eric Y. Drogin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a Diplomate and former President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. Dr Drogin currently holds faculty appointments with Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Mass General Brigham Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Harvard Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He is the Affiliated Lead of Psycholegal Studies for the Psychiatry, Law, and Society Program (at BWH), and participates in the Forensic Psychiatry Service (at BIDMC) and the Program in Psychiatry and the Law (at Massachusetts Mental Health Center). Additional positions have included Chair of the APA’s Committee on Professional Practice and Standards, Chair of the APA’s Committee on Legal Issues, Chair of the APA’s Joint Task Force with the American Bar Association (ABA), and President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association.

Currently serving as the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, and as the Co-Editor in Chief of Psychological Injury and Law, Dr Drogin has authored or co-authored over 300 legal and scientific publications to date, including the books Criminal Law Handbook on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence and Testimony (2000), Civil Law Handbook on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence and Testimony (2001), Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony (2007), Science for Lawyers (2008), Evaluation for Guardianship (2010), Handbook of Forensic Assessment (2011), The Mental Health Professional in Court (2013), Mirandized Statements (2014), Conducting Miranda Evaluations (2019), and Ethical Conflicts in Psychology (5th ed., 2019). He has lectured extensively throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and regularly presents training seminars for attorneys and mental health professionals on such topics as forensic assessment, ethics, and professional development. Dr Drogin’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses mental health law, expert witness testimony, and trial consultation.

Dr Jacob Rajesh is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist experienced in general adult psychiatry and forensic psychiatry at Promise Healthcare. His professional experience spans three countries. Early in his career, in India, he lectured in the Department of Psychiatry at the Christian Medical College. In the UK, he was largely a consultant psychiatrist while carrying out forensic work at mental health trusts. Finally, in Singapore, he was appointed assistant adjunct professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.