Nothing but the truth. The defendant’s speech in the forensic psychology at the beginning

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Pubblicato

2026-01-13

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Sezione

Itinerari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v23i.4934

Autori

  • Paolo Marchetti Università degli Studi di Teramo

Parole chiave:

Psicologia Giudiziaria, Verità, Ipnosi, Psicoanalisi, Indagine, Macchina della Verità

Abstract

The dream of obtaining the truth about what really happened directly from the person accused of a crime does not seem to have ever faded; even after the disappearance of the judicial torture. In this essay the author would like to reconstruct, on this issue, that kind of scientific path which starts developing at the beginning of the twentieth century and which involves well known scholars: from Freud to Jung, from Bernheim to Lombroso, just to mention few of them. Scholars who, in a different way, applied themselves in order to offer effective means able to penetrate, without violence, the defendant’s conscience to the judicial practice and to the police investigation. At the background of this curios research (that has in the so called lie detector one of his best known results) there is the question, pointed out firstly in the juridical milieu, concerning the legal and moral lawfulness of the use of these means.

 

Biografia autore

Paolo Marchetti, Università degli Studi di Teramo

Professore di Storia del diritto medievale e moderno, Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche nella Società e nella Storia.