Der psychologische Sachverständige

Aschaffenburg, Gustav

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“…Marbe's experiments on the train accident were superior because they accomplished two objectives: the use of scientific apparatus to gain quantitative results, on the one side, and the provision of a kind of experiment clearly linked to reality, on the other. This explains the positive impact his work had on the jurists, as the discussions at the International Union for Penal Law (Rosenfeld, 1913) and other references (see, e.g., Aschaffenburg, 1927) show. Pushing this reasoning a bit further, we may say that psychology was perceived as more useful by other professionals, such as jurists and pedagogues, as soon as it started to develop what is now known as "field research."…”

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Teaching psychology to jurists: Initiatives and reactions prior to World War I.

Mülberger

2009

History of Psychology

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This article deals with the kind of psychology suggested for jurists that was thought to be necessary training for their work. An analysis of the content of two textbooks by Otto Lipmann and Karl Marbe reveals that such teaching activity involves two different levels of historical analysis. On the one hand, it relates to experimental research done by psychologists on law-related issues; on the other, it concerns the professional experience psychologists accumulated by acting as expert witnesses in court. The paper investigates how psychologists presented psychology to jurists, which methods and theories they suggested as being essential for juristic training and professional performance, and whether jurists appreciated these materials and efforts. These inquiries are embedded in the debate on the history of criminal psychology, taking into account the European, particularly the German, context. The author shows how specific historical developments led to an increased exchange between experimental psychology and criminal law during the first decades of the 20th century.

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Teaching psychology to jurists: Initiatives and reactions prior to World War I.

Mülberger

2009

History of Psychology

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“…42 Countering psychologists' claims that psychiatrists' competency was limited to assessing the credibility of those suffering some form of mental pathology and did not extend to the assessment of normal individuals, psychiatrists like Gustav Aschaffenburg (1866Aschaffenburg ( -1944, pointing to the prevalence of borderline mental states, stressed that the more urgent problem was psychologists' inability to recognize pathological phenomena. 43 While Aschaffenburg did not dispute that some forensic doctors were poorly versed in the psychology of testimony, he maintained that one could not judge pathological deviation of mental life without the ability to correctly assess normal individuals. 44 Similarly, the psychiatrist Willy Vorkastner (1872-1931) rejected psychologists' attempts to monopolise the role of psychological expert for themselves.…”

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“God save us from psychologists as expert witnesses”: The battle for forensic psychology in early twentieth-century Germany.

Wolffram¹

2015

History of Psychology

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This article is focused on the jurisdictional battle between psychiatrists and psychologists over psychological expertise in legal contexts that took place during the first decades of the 20th century. Using, as an example, the debate between the psychologist William Stern, the psychiatrist Albert Moll, and the jurist Albert Hellwig, which occurred at the International Congress for Sexual Research held in Berlin in 1926, it aims to demonstrate the manner in which psychiatrists' responses to psychologists' attempts to gain admittance to Germany's courtrooms were shaped not only by epistemological and methodological objections, but also by changes to expert witnessing that had already encroached on psychiatrists' professional territory. Building upon recent work examining the relationship between psychologists and jurists prior to the First World War, this article also seeks to examine the role of judges and lawyers in the contest over forensic psychology in the mid-1920s, arguing that they ultimately became referees in the increasingly public disputes between psychiatrists and psychologists.

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Das neue spanische Strafgesetzbuch vom Standpunkt des Psychiaters

Jolly¹

1929

Archiv f. Psychiatrie

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Der psychologische Sachverständige

Cited by 3 publications

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Teaching psychology to jurists: Initiatives and reactions prior to World War I.

Teaching psychology to jurists: Initiatives and reactions prior to World War I.

“God save us from psychologists as expert witnesses”: The battle for forensic psychology in early twentieth-century Germany.

Das neue spanische Strafgesetzbuch vom Standpunkt des Psychiaters

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