Psychiatry Informative Speech

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Today We will be discussing on Forensic Psychiatry where we will be learning about Mental illness and their criminal aspects.

Psychiatry deals with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness.Mental illness or unsoundness of mind can be defined as a disease of the mind or the personality, in which there is derangement of the mental or emotional processes and impairment of behavioral control (in simple language:-INSANITY).

Forensic Psychiatry deals with the application of psychiatry in the administration of justice.It is involved to determine responsibility for the crime, sexual psychopathy(rape) and other sexual problems, such as homosexuality, transvestism, pedophilia, fetishism(the

Delusion of persecution(being persecuted against, e.g. 'people are against me’).

b. Delusion of refrence( being referred to by others, e.g. 'people are talking about me’).

c. Delusion of grandeur(exaggerated self-importance, e.g 'I an God almighty’).

d. Delusion of control(being controlled by an external force, known or unknown; e.g. 'My neighbour is controlling me’).

e. Delusion of infidelity(a man imagine his wife to be unfaithful while in fact she is chaste and vice versa).

f. Delusion of nihilism(person declares that he does not exist or that there is no world).

g. Somatic delusion(person believe that there are insects crawling in their scalp and body).

h. Erotomania(person believes that someone is deeply in love with him/ her).

Hallucination

These are perceptions that occur in the absence of a stimulus.They are purely imaginary, and may affect any or all the special senses.

Types

1. Visual

A person sees cat drinking milk kept in the pot when there is none.

2.Auditory

A person hears voices and imagines that a person is speaking to him when no one is present.

3.Olfactory

A person smells pleasant or unpleasant odor when none is present.

4.Gustatory

A person experiences different tastes(sweet, sour, bitter, salt) good or bad taste in mouth in the absence of the particular

Illusion

A misinterpretation of stimuli arising from external objects, e.g., when a person sees a dog and mistake it for lion, or a string hanging in his room to be a snake.

A sane person may experience the illusion but is capable of correcting the false impressions.But an insane person continues to believe in the illusions, even though the real fact is clearly pointed out.

Obsession

In this, a single idea, thought, or emotion is constantly entertained by a person which he/she recognizes as irrational, but persists in spite of all efforts to drive it from his mind.Any attempt to resist makes them appear more insistent and yielding is the almost inevitable outcome.

E.g. A person goes to bed after bolting the door and soon gets up to verify it.A sane person stops after verifying a few times, while an insane person continues the act all throughout the night without sleeping.

Impulse

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

Kleptomania

An irresistible desire to steal articles of little value.