What Is the Connection Between Mental Illness from a Legal

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Multiple Choice

What is the connection between mental illness from a legal standpoint and mental illness based on the criteria in the DSM-5?

• A)Not everyone who is considered mentally ill from a legal standpoint would meet the criteria for a DSM-5 diagnosis.
• B)It is a legal term used when the courts are describing dangerousness.
• C)Not everyone who receives a DSM-5 diagnosis is considered mentally ill from a legal standpoint.
• D)Mental illness has the same definition as psychological disorder.

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Definitions:

Electra Complex

is a psychoanalytic theory proposing that a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Oedipal Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory describing a child's feelings of desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards their same-sex parent.

Castration Anxiety

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a child's fear of losing their genitalia, believed to play a role in the development of certain complexes and behaviors.