Indian legal system and mental health

Legal justice and mental health.

Mental Health and Legal Landscapes

When it was established early in the twentieth century, Tokanui became part of a network of mental hospitals that were responsible for the care and confinement of the insane and the mentally deficient. At the time of its construction Tokanui was the first new mental hospital commissioned in over 20 years and the first to be built in the central North Island. Of those mental hospitals operating ...

Mental health: an Indian perspective

In the Indian scenario, research in mental health is notably deficient, but available clinical and epidemiological data suggest a significant co-morbidity between mental diseases and cardiovascular diseases. Mental health problems do not have the precision of other biological sciences due to the complex phenotypes. In India the effects of culture and the transition in symptomatology of psychiat...

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Legal abortion for mental health indications

Where legal systems allow therapeutic abortion to preserve women’s mental health, practitioners often lack access to mental health professionals for making critical diagnoses or prognoses that pregnancy or childcare endangers patients’ mental health. Practitioners themselves must then make clinical assessments of the impact on their patients of continued pregnancy or childcare. The law requires...

Mental health awareness: The Indian scenario