Alan R Felthous
Biographic Data
| ID | 4438777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan R Felthous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Felthous |
| SIGNATURE | FELTHOUS A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Louis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5459-9309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transgender Individuals and the Law
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request
The development of legal rights for intersex persons
Having addressed the nature and complexity of intersexuality including commonalities with and differences from the transgender condition, we now address major legal challenges to the bisexual status quo through the legal advancement of rights for intersexual persons. Identified here are four domains in which the rights of intersex individuals are being advanced through litigation and legislation: (a) Sex assignment at birth and in early childhood…
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons
As the nature of transgender condition becomes better understood and the legal rights of transgender individuals are defined through court decisions and legislation, intersexuality ought not be overlooked. Potential commonalities as well as differences between intersexual and transgender individuals, clinically and psychosexually, may be mutually informing and relevant to their legal rights in ways that could implicate mental health services. In …
Transgender Individuals and the Law
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations
This special issue of Behavioral Sciences & the Law presents six articles that focus on various issues related to social media in forensic mental health evaluations. These eclectic articles provide updated information about social media's use and navigating difficult ethical concerns. Ranging from violence risk assessment to disability evaluations, the up‐to‐date information in this special issue allows the forensic evaluator to be more prepared …
DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis as a guide to suicide risk assessment
A specific mental disorder can itself constitute a risk factor for a completed suicide. Even more important, the disorder is typically a modifiable risk factor which informs its own treatment. Recent editions of the DSM have included “suicide subsections” for specific mental disorders and conditions in which the risks of suicidal thoughts and behaviors for the disorder are noted in the literature. The DSM‐5‐TR can therefore serve as a compendium …
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization
Introductory essay
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this manuscript
Rational capacity and criminal responsibility in the USA
International perspectives on psychopathy research
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder
Intentional homicide, a declining phenomenon in Italy, represents one of the most extreme forms of violence. A specific subgroup of homicidal assailants is represented by those affected by mental disorders, where the relationship between psychopathology and characteristics of the homicidal attack is not yet fully understood. We analyzed the case files of 187 homicides or attempted homicides, in which the defendant had undergone a forensic psychia…
An introduction to international perspectives on homicide and the law
Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles
The Italian mafia organizations represent a subculture with values, beliefs, and goals that are antithetical to and undermining of the predominant society. The conduct of individual members includes such extreme violence for material gain, it may at least superficially suggest a severe personality disorder. Since the first edition of the DSM and into the 21st century, various terms have been used, sometimes interchangeably, but over time inconsis…
Introductory essay to this issue
The psychopathic dimension in women of mafia
Introduction to this Special Issue
The question of sanity restoration in jail
Severe mental illness, especially psychotic disorders that are worsening, acute or complicated, normally require intensive psychiatric care and treatment that is most appropriately provided in a mental hospital. For criminal defendants, transfer to a forensic security hospital has traditionally been the means of achieving hospital care for mentally disordered defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of ins…
Introduction to this Special Issue
Female psychopathy
Mental illness and the Lebanese criminal justice system
Qualitative analysis of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients with a chronic neurodegenerative disease
OBJECTIVE: Informed consent is an essential element in doctor-patient relationship. In particular, obtaining valid informed consent from patients with neurocognitive diseases is a critical issue at present. For this reason, we decided to conduct research on elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) to assess their capacity to make treatment decisions. METHODS: The experi…
The medical ethics of hospitalizing inmates with severe mental illness
A Severe Test of Interpersonal Theory of Depression Among Criminal Defendants
We attempted to place Coyne's (1976) interpersonal theory of depression in grave danger of refutation among a highly specialized psychiatric sample (76 criminal defendants referred for psychiatric evaluation). We assessed whether mood-disordered subjects scored lower on an index of social contact than nondepressed subjects. Consistent with interpersonal theory, depressed subjects obtained lower scores on the social contact measure than nondepress…
Recruiting subjects for clinical aggression research
The authors discuss the process and problems of recruiting subjects for a study of violent behavior experienced by otherwise normal adults. In a recent study, intensive recruitment efforts generated 443 self-referrals that resulted in the entry of ten percent of the inquirers. Descriptive clinical and demographic profiles of applicants are presented with emphasis on factors associated with noninclusion. Possible explanations for low admission rat…
Childhood Cruelty toward Animals among Criminals and Noncriminals
This paper examines the relationship between childhood cruelty toward animals and aggressive behavior among criminals and noncriminals in adulthood. Data were derived from personal interviews with 152 criminals and noncriminals in Kansas and Connecticut. A standardized, closed, and open-ended interview, requiring approximately 1-2 hours to complete, was administered to all subjects. Aggressiveness was defined by behavioral criteria rather than by…
Aggression against cats, dogs and people
Childhood Cruelty toward Animals among Criminals and Noncriminals
This paper examines the relationship between childhood cruelty toward animals and aggressive behavior among criminals and noncriminals in adulthood. Data were derived from personal interviews with 152 criminals and noncriminals in Kansas and Connecticut. A standardized, closed, and open-ended interview, requiring approximately 1-2 hours to complete, was administered to all subjects. Aggressiveness was defined by behavioral criteria rather than by…
Recruiting subjects for clinical aggression research
The authors discuss the process and problems of recruiting subjects for a study of violent behavior experienced by otherwise normal adults. In a recent study, intensive recruitment efforts generated 443 self-referrals that resulted in the entry of ten percent of the inquirers. Descriptive clinical and demographic profiles of applicants are presented with emphasis on factors associated with noninclusion. Possible explanations for low admission rat…
A Severe Test of Interpersonal Theory of Depression Among Criminal Defendants
We attempted to place Coyne's (1976) interpersonal theory of depression in grave danger of refutation among a highly specialized psychiatric sample (76 criminal defendants referred for psychiatric evaluation). We assessed whether mood-disordered subjects scored lower on an index of social contact than nondepressed subjects. Consistent with interpersonal theory, depressed subjects obtained lower scores on the social contact measure than nondepress…
The medical ethics of hospitalizing inmates with severe mental illness
Qualitative analysis of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients with a chronic neurodegenerative disease
OBJECTIVE: Informed consent is an essential element in doctor-patient relationship. In particular, obtaining valid informed consent from patients with neurocognitive diseases is a critical issue at present. For this reason, we decided to conduct research on elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) to assess their capacity to make treatment decisions. METHODS: The experi…
Introduction to this Special Issue
The question of sanity restoration in jail
Severe mental illness, especially psychotic disorders that are worsening, acute or complicated, normally require intensive psychiatric care and treatment that is most appropriately provided in a mental hospital. For criminal defendants, transfer to a forensic security hospital has traditionally been the means of achieving hospital care for mentally disordered defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of ins…
Introduction to this Special Issue
Female psychopathy
Mental illness and the Lebanese criminal justice system
International perspectives on psychopathy research
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder
Intentional homicide, a declining phenomenon in Italy, represents one of the most extreme forms of violence. A specific subgroup of homicidal assailants is represented by those affected by mental disorders, where the relationship between psychopathology and characteristics of the homicidal attack is not yet fully understood. We analyzed the case files of 187 homicides or attempted homicides, in which the defendant had undergone a forensic psychia…
An introduction to international perspectives on homicide and the law
Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles
The Italian mafia organizations represent a subculture with values, beliefs, and goals that are antithetical to and undermining of the predominant society. The conduct of individual members includes such extreme violence for material gain, it may at least superficially suggest a severe personality disorder. Since the first edition of the DSM and into the 21st century, various terms have been used, sometimes interchangeably, but over time inconsis…
Introductory essay to this issue
The psychopathic dimension in women of mafia
Introductory essay
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this manuscript
Rational capacity and criminal responsibility in the USA
DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis as a guide to suicide risk assessment
A specific mental disorder can itself constitute a risk factor for a completed suicide. Even more important, the disorder is typically a modifiable risk factor which informs its own treatment. Recent editions of the DSM have included “suicide subsections” for specific mental disorders and conditions in which the risks of suicidal thoughts and behaviors for the disorder are noted in the literature. The DSM‐5‐TR can therefore serve as a compendium …
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations
This special issue of Behavioral Sciences & the Law presents six articles that focus on various issues related to social media in forensic mental health evaluations. These eclectic articles provide updated information about social media's use and navigating difficult ethical concerns. Ranging from violence risk assessment to disability evaluations, the up‐to‐date information in this special issue allows the forensic evaluator to be more prepared …
The development of legal rights for intersex persons
Having addressed the nature and complexity of intersexuality including commonalities with and differences from the transgender condition, we now address major legal challenges to the bisexual status quo through the legal advancement of rights for intersexual persons. Identified here are four domains in which the rights of intersex individuals are being advanced through litigation and legislation: (a) Sex assignment at birth and in early childhood…
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons
As the nature of transgender condition becomes better understood and the legal rights of transgender individuals are defined through court decisions and legislation, intersexuality ought not be overlooked. Potential commonalities as well as differences between intersexual and transgender individuals, clinically and psychosexually, may be mutually informing and relevant to their legal rights in ways that could implicate mental health services. In …
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (14 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Medical emergency (9 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Forensic psychiatry (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)