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Dr. Peter Geissler, MD, PhD

PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL STATUS EVALUATIONS

Dr. Geissler’s private practice as a licensed research psychoanalyst in the State of California is limited to the assessment of the mental capacity of elderly adults.

“OF SOUND MIND”

A Treatise on

Psychiatric Mental Status Evaluations

[Legal References: State of California]

By

Prof. Dr.(med.) Peter Scott Geissler, A.B.(Berkeley), B.Sc.(Stanford), B.A.I.(Trinity,Dublin)
L.C.E. (Trinity, Dublin), B.A.S.(Nevada), M.S.(Yale), M.Phil.(Yale), Ph.D.(Yale)
M.A.(Berkeley), M.Eng.(Davis), M.S.(Irvine), Ph.D.(Irvine), M.S.(Montserrat)
M.D.(Grace University, St Kitts), M.Phil.(Cantab), University of Cambridge
Dipl. in Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Physician (Tropical Medicine & Psychiatry), Zanzibar (P/MDF/0673)
Board Certified Chemical Hygiene Officer (NRCC) USA (4781)
Board Certified Medical Physicist (ICPM), Ireland (407318)
State of California Research Psychoanalyst (RP 254)

Dr. Geissler is a renowned expert in psychiatric mental status evaluations of elderly adults in relation to the concept of “informed consent” and the mental status requirements for decisional capacity in healthcare.

Other specialties include:

• Diminished Capacity in State Guardianship Law
• Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity
• Mental Status Requirements for Independent Living
• Mental Status Requirements for Financial Capacity
• Mental Status Requirements for Testamentary Declarations
• Mental Status Requirements for Donative Capacity 
• Mental Status Requirements for Contractual Capacity 
• Mental Status Requirements for Capacity to Convey Real Property 
• Mental Status Requirements for Capacity to Execute a Durable Power of Attorney
• Mental Status Requirements for Capacity to Mediate 
• Mental Status Requirements for Capacity to Drive 
• Mental Status Requirements for Capacity to Marry
• Mental Status Requirements to Sue and be Sued
• Mental Status Requirements to Vote