In the medical-legal expertise, exploration and evaluation of chronic and severe mental illness are very common, among other reasons, when assessing accountability and suitability of these patients hospitalization. Moreover, it is frequent that offenses may be related to their social isolation. The coroner's valuation can be transcendent in these cases, also for the illness evolution. This can be seen through the case presented, where a patient with schizoaffective disorder and obsessive personality committed a crime against the person for several years and where the social isolation clearly influenced the evolution of the process.... [Leer más...]