ABSTRACT
Forensic psychiatry operates at the interface of two disparate disciplines: law and psychiatry. Although most cases in forensic psychiatry practice engender no signicant con-icts, functioning at the interface of these two disciplines can lead to confusion, challenging ethical dilemmas, or both. Forensic psychiatry received ocial recognition as a medical subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) granting its rst forensic psychiatry certication in 1994. However, much work had been done prior to ABMS subspecialty recognition on dening the proper roles and responsibilities of forensic psychiatrists.
