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Psych VivasForensic psychiatry — stalking and harassment

Psych Vivas · Forensic psychiatry — stalking and harassment

Stalking and harassment — structured clinical viva

Fellowship viva on intimacy-seeking/erotomanic stalking, multi-domain risk, and communication of residual uncertainty.

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FRANZCPMRCPsychABPNMD-DNB

Target exams

FRANZCPMRCPsychABPNMD-DNB
Prompt
You are the forensic psychiatry registrar. A 41-year-old man with a history of delusional disorder (erotomanic type) has been sending gifts and letters for 18 months to a GP he saw once for a minor complaint. He believes they are engaged. He has no prior intimate relationship with her. He has not assaulted her but has waited outside the clinic twice. Antipsychotic adherence is intermittent. The clinic asks whether he is 'dangerous' and whether they should 'just ignore him'. Discuss definition vs diagnosis, typology, multi-domain risk (including persistence), assessment method, management of stalker and victim/clinic safety, role of antipsychotic treatment, and how you answer 'is he dangerous?' without false precision.

Interpretation

Reveal interpretation

Refuse binary "dangerous/not". Translate into multi-domain residual risks under stated conditions, with mitigations and uncertainty.[7][4]

Constructs. This is stalking as behaviour plus an erotomanic delusional driver. Mullen intimacy-seeking type; RECON private stranger / professional acquaintance context; historical Zona erotomanic frame. Absence of assault does not mean absence of serious harm — victim/clinic psychosocial damage and persistence are central.[1][2][6]

Risk pattern. Psychotic intimacy-seeking campaigns may show relatively lower average assault rates than rejected ex-intimates in some series, yet high persistence and recurrence if untreated, with approach behaviours (waiting outside) as dynamic concern. Assess weapons, escalation, response to limit-setting, substances, and adherence.[3][5][4]

Assessment. Multi-source chronology; structured stalking-informed tool concepts (SRP domains); MSE for delusional system and insight; map clinic access.[8][4]

Management. Do not "just ignore". Clinic security plan, no personal engagement that reinforces delusion, transfer of clinical care if needed, legal options as local process. Treat psychosis (adherence support; consider LAI/hospital if risk/access high under local criteria). Communicate scenarios: further approaches if non-adherent + continued clinic access; reduced contact if treated + access blocked + legal constraints.[1][4][7]

Key points

No assault ≠ no stalking harm

Psychosocial damage and persistence can be severe without physical injury.

Intimacy-seeking + psychosis

High persistence risk; treat the delusion; block reinforcing contact.

Scenarios not destiny

Answer clinics with conditions, mitigations, and residual uncertainty.
[6] [3] [7]

References

  1. [1]Mullen PE, Pathé M, Purcell R, et al. Study of stalkers Am J Psychiatry, 1999.PMID 10450267
  2. [2]Zona MA, Sharma KK, Lane J A comparative study of erotomanic and obsessional subjects in a forensic sample J Forensic Sci, 1993.PMID 8355005
  3. [3]McEwan TE, Mullen PE, MacKenzie R A study of the predictors of persistence in stalking situations Law Hum Behav, 2009.PMID 18626757
  4. [4]Mullen PE, Mackenzie R, Ogloff JR, et al. Assessing and managing the risks in the stalking situation J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 2006.PMID 17185471
  5. [5]Kienlen KK, Birmingham DL, Solberg KB, et al. A comparative study of psychotic and nonpsychotic stalking J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 1997.PMID 9323658
  6. [6]Pathé M, Mullen PE The impact of stalkers on their victims Br J Psychiatry, 1997.PMID 9068768
  7. [7]Large MM, Ryan CJ, Nielssen OB Helpful and unhelpful risk assessment practices Psychiatr Serv, 2010.PMID 20439381
  8. [8]McEwan TE, Shea DE, Daffern M, et al. The Reliability and Predictive Validity of the Stalking Risk Profile Assessment, 2018.PMID 27305931