Schizophrenia
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Schizophrenia, means mental disorder, Ram Narain Gupta v. Rameswari Gupta, AIR 1988 SC 2260: (1988) 4 SCC 247: (1988) Supp 2 SCR 913.
Schizophrenia, is a type of mental illness and is a form of psychosis, which is more serious than other types of mental illnesses, Rohini Prasad Lal Bihari Ram v. Union of India, (1995) MLJ 268.
Schizophrenia, is one of a group of severe emotional disorders, usually of psychotic proportions, characterized by misinterpretation and retreat from reality, delusions, hallucinations, ambivalence, inappropriate affect, and withdrawn, bizarre, or regressive behaviour; popularly and erroneously called split personality, Medical Legal Dictionary, Sloane-Docland, p. 628
Schizophrenia, is a type of mental illness and is a form of psychosis, which is more serious than other types of mental illnesses, Rohini Prasad Lal Bihari Ram v. Union of India, (1995) MLJ 268.
Schizophrenia, is one of a group of severe emotional disorders, usually of psychotic proportions, characterized by misinterpretation and retreat from reality, delusions, hallucinations, ambivalence, inappropriate affect, and withdrawn, bizarre, or regressive behaviour; popularly and erroneously called split personality, Medical Legal Dictionary, Sloane-Docland, p. 628
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