Indian marriage laws and mental disorders: Is it necessary to amend the legal provisions?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, AN Magadh Medical College, Gaya, Bihar, India.
² Clinical Psychologist, Akanksha - An Institute of Mentally Challenged, Bodhgaya, Bihar, India.

Choudhary Laxmi Narayan et al. Indian J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct-Dec.

. 2015 Oct-Dec;57(4):341-4.

doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.171836.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, AN Magadh Medical College, Gaya, Bihar, India.
² Clinical Psychologist, Akanksha - An Institute of Mentally Challenged, Bodhgaya, Bihar, India.

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