Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder and the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway

The dangers of using diagnoses outside of established psychiatric nosology in the courtroom: Analysis and discussion of current Swiss legal precedent from a medical perspective

“…The dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) experiment (e.g. Tyrer et al, 2010;Völlm & Konappa, 2012) between 2000 and 2013 in England and Wales (Trebilcock, 2020;Tyrer et al, 2015) is also relevant. The DSPD programme was a reaction to a high-profile case, where an individual with a personality disorder killed a mother and her daughter.…”