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Updated: Jan 19, 2026
Stress and Mental Health
Mental health legislation in contemporary India: a critical review
1Specialist Registrar, Manchester, UK, email kunalkala@hotmail.com.
Abstract:
After 20 years of experience with the legislation, it is now a good time to assess the Mental Health Act 1987 of India. How useful has it been to consumers, carers and the mental health profession? It has been perceived as isolationist because it deals only with psychiatric hospitals and excludes a large number of general hospital psychiatric units from its purview. It is also un-implementable in some parts of the country because of the shortage of resources. From a human rights perspective, it is deficient in two important ways: it failed to establish independent review bodies for involuntary admissions; and it lacks provision for research with people who have a mental illness.
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