Mental health law

quality of natural and juridical persons necessary for their actions to have legal effect

castration via anaphrodisiacal drugs, whether to reduce libido and sexual activity, to treat cancer, or otherwise

mental element in criminal law

legal process through which an individual who is deemed to have symptoms of severe mental disorder loses freedoms

set of behavioral characteristics thought to be associated with later violent tendencies

Sanity () refers to the soundness, rationality, and health of the human mind, as opposed to insanity. A person is sane if they are rational. In modern society, the term has become exclusively synonymous with . The contrast is non compos mentis, or insanity. According to the writer G. K. Chesterton, sanity involves wholeness, whereas insanity implies narrowness and brokenness.

claim that some biological factor present in the defendant provides a defense against the accused crimes

medical treatment undertaken without the consent of the person being treated

legal defense

1978 mental health law promulgated in Italy, leading to a large reform of the psychiatric system in Italy, containing directives for the closing down of all psychiatric hospitals, inspired by the work of the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia

freely made decision designed and intended to bind oneself in the future