Seena Fazel

Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Partnership Mental Healthcare NHS Trust, Littlemore Mental Health Centre, Oxford OX4 4XN

Research Affiliate, Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institute, PO Box 23000, SE-104 35, Stockholm, Sweden
Research Interests

Epidemiology of mental illness and violent crime, mental health of prisoners, mental disorders in homicide and sexual offenders, risk factors for repeat offending.

Selected Publications

Fazel S, Sjosdedt G, Langstrom N, Grann M (2007). Sexual offending and
the risk of severe mental illness. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
68:588-594

Fazel S, Grann M, Ahlner J, Goodwin G (2007). Suicides by violent means
in individuals taking SSRIs and other antidepressants: A postmortem
study in Sweden, 1992-2004. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
27:503-506

Fazel S, O'Donnell I, Hope T, Gulati G, Jacoby R (2007). Frontal lobes
and older sex offenders: A preliminary investigation. International
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 22:87-89

Fazel S, Bond M, Gulati G, O'Donnell I (2007). Elderly homicide in
Chicago: A research note. Behavioral Sciences and the Law 25:629-639

Assadi S, Nakhaei M, Najafi F, Fazel S (2007). Mental health in three
generations of Iranian medical students and doctors: A cross-sectional
study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 42:57-60

Seena Fazel, Grann M. The population impact of psychiatric patients on violent crime in Sweden, 1988-2000. American Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 163:1397-403. ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/163/8/1397

Seena Fazel, Sjosdedt G, Langstrom N, Grann M. Risk factors for criminial recidivism in older sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment 2006; 18:159-168. PMID: 16633906. www.springerlink.com/content/l533841x45661431

Lambert T, Turner G, Fazel S, Goldacre M. Reasons why some UK medical graduates who initially choose psychiatry do not pursue it as a long-term career. Psychological Medicine 2006; 36:679-84. View or Download PDF

Seena Fazel, Benning R. Natural deaths in male prisoners: a 20-year mortality study. European Journal of Public Health 2006; 16:441-444. eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/441

Fazel S, Grann M, Goodwin G. Suicide trends in discharged patients with mood disorders: associations with selective serotonin uptake inhibitors and comorbid substance misuse. International Clinical Psychopharmacology 2006; 21:111-5.

Fazel S, Bains P, Doll H. Systematic review of substance abuse and dependence in prisoners. Addiction 2006; 101:181-91. View or Download PDF

Assadi M, Noroozian M, Pakravannejad M, Aghayan S, Shariat S, Yahyazadeh O, Fazel S. Psychiatric morbidity among sentenced prisoners: prevalence study in Iran. British Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 188:159-64.

Seena Fazel, Benning R, Danesh J. Suicides in male prisoners in England and Wales, 1978-2003. Lancet 2005; 366:1301-2; published with commentary.

Seena Fazel, Lubbe S. Prevalence and characteristics of mental illness in jails and prisons. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2005: 18:550-554.

Goldacre M, Turner G, Fazel S, Lambert T. Career choices for psychiatry: national surveys of graduates of 1974-2000 from UK medical schools. British Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 186:158-164.

Seena Fazel, Martin Grann. Homicide offenders and psychiatric morbidity: a Swedish population study. American Journal of Psychiatry 2004; 161:2129-2131.

Martin Grann, Seena Fazel. Substance misuse and violent criminality: Swedish population study. BMJ 2004; 128:1233-4.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Ian O'Donnell, Robin Jacoby. Unmet treatment needs of older prisoners: a primary care survey. Age and Ageing 2004; 33:396-8.

Seena Fazel, John Danesh. Serious mental disorders in 23 000 prisoners: a systematic review of 62 surveys. Lancet 2002; 359:545-50.

Seena Fazel, Evangelos Vassos, John Danesh. Prevalence of epilepsy in prisoners: systematic review. BMJ 2002; 324:1495.

Seena Fazel, John McMillan, Ian O'Donnell. Dementia in prison: ethical and legal implications. Journal of Medical Ethics 2002; 28:156-159.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Ian O'Donnell, Robin Jacoby. Psychiatric, demographic, and personality characteristics of elderly sex offenders. Psychological Medicine 2002; 32:219-226.

Coid J, Seena Fazel, Khatan N. Elderly patients admitted to secure forensic psychiatry services. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 2002; 13:416-427.

Seena Fazel, Martin Grann. Older criminals: a descriptive study of psychiatrically examined offenders in Sweden. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2002; 17:907-913.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Ian O'Donnell, Robin Jacoby. Hidden psychiatric morbidity in elderly prisoners. British Journal of Psychiatry 2001; 179:535-9.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Ian O'Donnell, Piper M, Robin Jacoby. Health of elderly male prisoners: worse than the general population, worse than younger prisoners. Age and Ageing 2001; 30:403-407.

Seena Fazel, MacMillan J. A climate of secrecy undermines public trust. BMJ 2001; 322:1239-40.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Robin Jacoby. The effect of cognitive impairment and pre-morbid intelligence on treatment preferences for life-sustaining medical therapy. American Journal of Psychiatry 2000; 157:1009-1011.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Robin Jacoby. Dementia, intelligence and the competence to complete advance directives. Lancet 1999; 354:48.

Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Robin Jacoby. Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: a patient centered approach. BMJ 1999; 318:493-7.

Seena Fazel, Robin Jacoby. Psychiatric aspects of crime and the elderly. In: Psychiatry in the elderly, ed. R. Jacoby and C. Oppenheimer. (Oxford: OUP, 3rd edition) 2002:919-931.

Seena Fazel. Competence. In: Psychiatry in the elderly, ed. R. Jacoby and C. Oppenheimer. (Oxford: OUP, 3rd edition) 2002:941-950.


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