Mental Illness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mental illnessMentally ill prisoner
Mentally ill prisoner, means a mentally ill person for whose detention in, or removal to, a psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody, an order referred to in s. 27 has been made. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(m)]...
mental illness
mental illness 1 : mental disease 2 : a mental condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological and often social functioning of the individual called also mental disorder ...
Mentally ill person
Mentally ill person, means a person who is in need of treatment by reason of any mental disorder other than mental retardation. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(l); see also Act (34 of 1971), s. 2(b)...
Mental illness
Mental illness, means any mental disorder other than mental retardation. (Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (q)]...
guilty but mentally ill
guilty but mentally ill : a verdict available in some jurisdictions in cases involving an insanity defense in which the defendant is considered as if having been found guilty but is committed to a mental hospital rather than imprisoned if an examination shows a need for psychiatric treatment compare not guilty by reason of insanity ...
mental disease
mental disease : an abnormal mental condition that interferes with mental or emotional processes and internal behavioral control and that is not manifest only in repeated criminal or antisocial conduct ;broadly : mental illness NOTE: Mental disease and mental illness are in general use synonymous, but mental disease has developed a settled meaning in criminal law while mental illness is often explained or defined by reference to the medical community's understanding of the term. ...
mental disorder
mental disorder : mental illness ...
Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home
Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, means a hospital or, as the case may be, a nursing home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for the treatment and care of mentally ill person and includes a convalescent home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for such mentally ill persons; but does not include any general hospital or general nursing home established or maintained by the Government and which provides also for psychiatric services. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (q) ]...
Schizophrenia
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...
Person of unsound mind
Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33) (see those titles, and LUNATICS).The statute law affecting persons of unsound mind in contained in the (English) Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, of which the principal are the (English) Lunacy Acts, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 5), 1891 (54 & 55 Vict., c. 56), and as regards Boards of Control, the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1927 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930 (S.R. & O., 1930 No. 1083). A classification of patients has been made as follows: (a) Voluntary (see the (English) Act of 1930, s. 1; (b) Temporary (ibid., s. 5 (1); (c) Certified [(English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 4]; (d) Found to be of unsound mind upon inquisition (see that title), and a further classification is into a pri...
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