Mistakes in interpersonal perceptions: Social cognition in aggressive forensic psychiatry patients

BACKGROUND: While there is an established link between untreated psychosis and aggression, an enhanced understanding of the role of social cognition is still needed. AIMS: To examine social cognitive functioning among patients in a specialist forensic mental health service who had been deemed not criminally responsible for acts of violence due to a psychotic disorder. It was hypothesised, first, that such patients would show reduced social …