THE LAW AND MENTAL DISORDER

Mental Disorder and Criminal Law

from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others . . . . Their deficiencies do not warrant an exemption from criminal sanctions, but they do diminish their personal culpability . . . . With respect to retribution—the interest in seeing that the offender gets his “just deserts”—the severity of the appropriate ...

Mental Health and the Law

Law Association for Asia and the Pacific) organised an interdisciplinary seminar at Madras on "The strategies for Professional Collaboration to Promote the Rights of the Mentally 111", which was attended by members of the legal and mental health profession. While an atmosphere of bonhomie prevailed, there were also undercurrents of mutual discomfort. This discomfort was generally due to fears o...

Mental Health and Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder. Edited by Arnold M. Rose. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 40s. The emergence of group methods in the treatment of mental illness in this country is still regarded with some suspicion by many workers in the mental health field. There is a tendency to consider the treatment of numbers of patients at the same time as a second best, though most people agree that the sho...

Child psychiatry, mental disorder and the law: is a more specific statutory framework necessary?

Kenya’s mental health law

Kenya's Mental Health Act 1989 is now outdated. It is a signatory to international rights conventions that provide for state protection of the rights of people with mental illness, their property and their treatment. There is, however, a glaring failure to implement the existing legal provisions. A new Mental Health Bill that aims to respond comprehensively to the challenges affecting mental he...