Henrik Anckarsäter Memorial Lecture
Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health at the University of Gothenburg invites you to HENRIK ANCKARSÄTER MEMORIAL LECTURE on June 21st 2022.
Henrik Anckarsäter
Professor Henrik Anckarsäter, Gothenburg, passed away in 2021 at the age of 54. Despite his short life, he made his mark on Swedish forensic psychiatry research, the many doctoral students he supervised and the interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health he founded and led at the University of Gothenburg.
Henrik was appointed Associate Professor at Lund University in 2005 and took up a professorship in forensic psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg in 2008. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris XII from 2006 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2015 at Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö.
After completing his PhD, Henrik began a patient work of bringing together researchers and stakeholders in the field of forensic psychiatry into a West Swedish network. Here, his strong interdisciplinary interests were combined with the ability to bring together individuals from widely differing subject areas, which formed the basis for the research groups he formed in Gothenburg and Lund, which consequently became the Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health. From the very beginning, Henrik's work was characterized by the conviction that forensic psychiatric scientific work must be based on collaborations between different scientific disciplines, but also in practical terms between regions, authorities, and higher education institutions.
The projects Henrik initiated at the University of Gothenburg and Lund have continued to contribute to new knowledge in the field of forensic psychiatry. Most of the doctoral students he supervised for his dissertation have continued on the academic path and today have become independent researchers and associate professors. The network he formed thus plays a fundamental role in the continued development of Swedish forensic psychiatry.
Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health invites you to HENRIK ANCKARSÄTER MEMORIAL LECTURE on June 21st 2022:
Where do we go from here in forensic mental health services?
Lecturer: Professor Anne Crocker
Department of Psychiatry & Addictions Université de Montréal
Research & Academics Institut National de Psychiatrie Légale Philippe-Pinel, Guest Professor at CELAM, University of Gothenburg
Anne Crocker PhD is Full professor at the department of psychiatry & addictions and at the School of criminology of the Université de Montréal, Director of Research and Academics at the Philippe-Pinel Institute, past-president of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services and Guest professor at the University of Gothenburg. She sits on many forensic mental health policy advisory committees. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the Université de Montréal and a post-doctoral degree in mental health services from Dartmouth Medical School, NH.
People with histories of both mental health and justice involvement experience reduced access to appropriate healthcare, housing, employment, and social supports, perpetuating exclusion, poverty, homelessness and re-criminalisation, all of which also come at high human and economic costs. Professor Crocker’s research program focuses on circumscribing issues and specific needs related to mentally ill individuals’ interactions with the justice system; characterizing their use of services; analyzing the effects of legislative mechanisms related to the access to, organization and delivery of services; and documenting the barriers and facilitators of post-criminalisation community integration.
Professor Crocker is Lead on the Canadian National Trajectory Project of individuals found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder which received the significant contribution award of the Criminal Justice section of the Canadian Psychological Association.