forensic psychology

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I would like to obtain information regarding the history of forensic psychology and general information.

-- amanda denton (kab3233w@aol.com), January 28, 2002

Answers

I wrote the following very brief history in my article on Psychospirtual Dreams in the Nineteenth Century, Part I. Dreams of Death (Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1994, vol 22, No. 2, pp. 97-108):

Forensic psychiatry attained the status of a profession during the first half or the nineteenth century, especially in Germany. In 1829 J. B. Friedreich founded the Magazin fur die philosophische, medicinische und gerichtlichen Seelenkunde. Friedriech also published several textbooks on forensic psychiatry. The QUarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence was founded by Elton Hammond in England in 1867. Bell found the American Medico-Legal Journal in 1883. (p. 101, n. 11)

A number of interesting forensic cases were reported in THe Green Bag: A Useless but Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers.

One aspect of the history of forensic psychiatry/psychology is treated in deatil in Daniel N. Robinson's book Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Devense from Antiquity to the Present (Harvard University Press, 1996)

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), January 28, 2002.


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