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Mentally ill prisoner

Mentally ill prisoner, means a mentally ill person for whose detention in, or removal to, a psychiatric hospital, psychiatric

mental illness

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Mentally ill person

Mentally ill person, means a person who is in need of treatment by reason of any mental disorder other

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guilty but mentally ill

guilty but mentally ill : a verdict available in some jurisdictions in cases involving an insanity defense in which the defendant

mental disorder

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mental disease

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Schizophrenia

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

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

Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home

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

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