00:01
Okay so for the legal definition of insanity, for the purpose would be to determine whether an individual can be held criminally responsible for their actions and the basis which is going to vary by jurisdiction but a common test in the u .s.
00:20
Is going to state that a person is legally insane if due to a let's say a quote -unquote disease of the mind they either didn't understand what they were doing or didn't understand that what they were doing was wrong.
00:37
Now the limitation is that it's strictly focused on the individual's mental state at the time of the crime not on a broader assessment of their overall mental health.
00:49
So psychological concepts of mental illness, so the purpose would be to understand, diagnose, and treat conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, behavior, or mood and then for the basis the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders or the international classification of diseases provide criteria for diagnosing various mental disorders and these criteria are based on research, clinical observations, and expert consensus.
01:20
So for the limitation while being diagnosed with a mental disorder doesn't automatically mean that one is legally insane.
01:27
Many people with mental illnesses understand the difference between right and wrong and can be held criminally responsible...