Forensic-psychiatric and victimological evaluation of mental disorders in victims
The paper based on evaluation of 128 complainants in criminal cases diagnosed as having various nosological forms of mental disorders defines the interrelationship between the pattern and level of psychopathological disturbances and individual personality profiles and peculiarities of victim behaviour. An algorithm is formulated for forensic-psychiatric evaluation of victims with mental disorders whereby significance is attached to the gravity and nature of the underlying psychopathologic symptomatology and degree of its impact (along with individual-personality characteristics) on the cognitive and volitional components of behaviour regulation rather than to nosological qualification of mental aberration.