This document provides an overview of forensic psychiatry and defines common psychiatric terms and symptoms of mental illness that are relevant to the legal system. It describes normal mental functions and defines key concepts like insanity, mental impairment, delirium, delusions, hallucinations, illusions, impulses, obsessions, and lucid intervals. It distinguishes between psychoses and neuroses and provides examples of specific delusions, hallucinations, and impulses. Important medicolegal concepts are also outlined, such as distinguishing responsibility during lucid intervals in insanity versus head injury.