ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to bridge the gap in perception between lawyers and medical jurists, psychiatrists, and behavioural sciences experts like forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology, forensic neurology, etc. It helps the judiciary and the police in medicolegal to resolve the problems associated with personality, sexual and psychological disorders, homicides, fixing the criminal responsibility or the testamentary capacity, marriage and divorce disputes due to mental illness, matters related to the hospitalisation of mentally ill patients, etc. The information here are relevant not only to criminal cases but also to civil cases involving mentally ill persons, as well as the legislative, regulatory, and risk assessment issues of the psychiatry cases. The chapter highlights are the basics of the human mind, an unsound mind, and related manifestations, as well as the role of the doctor in restraining/management of a mentally ill and the laws/statutes/guidelines for psychiatrists under the Mental Health Act 2017.
