Expert's psychological and psychiatric diagnostics of self-regulation ability of the accused and victims of mental influence cases
Experts' analysis indicates the legality of forensic psychological- psychiatric assessment of mental state in victim of mental harassment and his ability for conscious regulation of own activity. Forensic-expert methodology based on socio-psychological modeling of interaction between persons with one of them exerting mental influence on the other one is proposed. Psychopathological and psychological levels of abnormalities in self-regulation due to mental influence in the accused and victims have been analyzed. It has been revealed that in the accused the process of total identification with the inductor underlies psychopathological level of abnormality in ability for conscious regulation of criminal acts while partial identification with subjective significant authority underlies psychological one. Abnormality in ability for effective defense against swindlers' offence by purposeful conscious and volitional behavior in victims is determined by partial identification with the members of criminal group together with emotional tension that arise in the course of communication with them. Legal consequences of conclusions of complex forensic psychological and psychiatric expertise are discussed. The accused abnormality in ability to realize real nature and public danger of own deeds and control them as the result of mental influence conditions their insanity while restriction of ability to realize and control criminal deeds - limited responsibility (in case of accused mental disease) or significant influence of psychological peculiarities on criminal behavior (in mentally sane). In victims, abnormality in ability to understand the meaning of committed acts or to resist leads to qualification of helplessness and disability condition thus aggravating the accused punishment. In the accused, who committed crime under the influence of mental influence, combination of partial infantilism and affective rigidity has been revealed. In victims heightened readiness to perceive mystical information has been revealed along with the stated personal peculiarities