Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Mon 31 AugPAPER

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A CASE OF CANNIBALISTIC BEHAVIOUR IN PSYCHOSIS: CLINICAL AND FORENSIC CONSIDERATIONS.

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The reader gains a vivid and genuinely rare presentation to hold alongside the small existing literature on psychosis-related cannibalism, and a proposed typological distinction between homicidal and opportunistic necrophagic forms. It changes nothing an evaluator must do, and a single case cannot support any generalisable inference about responsibility or risk, so its value is descriptive and illustrative rather than practice-altering.

J Forensic Leg Med. 2026;122:103197.