Ch 23 Forensic Psychiatry

Question 1

What is delirium

Answer 1

It is a disturbance of consciousness in which orientation is impaired, the critical faculty is blunted or lost and thought content is irrelevant or inconsistent

Question 2

What is delusion?

Answer 2

Delusion is a false and firm believe in something which is not a fact and which persists even after its falcity has been clearly demonstrated

Question 3

What is hallucination?

Answer 3

Hallucination is a false sense perception without any external object or stimulus to produce it

Question 4

What is erotomania

Answer 4

Erotomania is a delusion in which the person believes that someone is deeply in love with him/her

Question 5

What is impulse?

Answer 5

This is a sudden and irresistible force compelling the person to the conscious performance of some action without motive or fourthought

Question 6

What is obsession?

Answer 6

In this, a single Idea, thought or emotion is constantly entertain by a person which he recognises as irrational, but purses in spite of all efforts to drive it from his mind. It is and disorder of content of thought

Question 7

Testamentary will vs holographic will

Answer 7

Testamentry capacity is a mental ability of a person to make a valid will

Hologram will is the one which is written by a testator in his own handwriting

Question 8

Mens rea

Answer 8

The law presumes that for every criminal act there must be a criminal intent or mind

Question 9

Actus rea

Answer 9

Actual forbidden physical act causing death

Question 10

MC naughten rule/the right or wrong test/the legal test

Answer 10

Any accused person is not legally responsible, if it is clearly proved that at the time of committing the crime he was suffering from a defect of reason from abnormality of mind, thknow the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or that what he was doing was wrong

Question 11

Sec 84 IPC

Answer 11

Nothing is an offence which is done by a person, who at the time of doing it by reason of unsoundness of mind, is capable of knowing the nature of the act or that he was doing what is either wrong or contrary to law

Question 12

Somnambulism

Answer 12

Walking during sleep

Question 13

Somnalentia

Answer 13

Sleep drunkenness
Midway between sleep and waking

Question 14

Condition in which person is not responsible for the crime

Answer 14

TOPSID
Twilight state
Oneiroid state
Post traumatic automatism
Somnambulism
Involuntary drug intoxication- 85IPC
Delirium tremens- acute alcohol withdrawal, datura intoxication