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Nr. 2/2017MARIA J. ROCA Impact of the new rights on the exercise of freedom of religion and conscience
Table of contents
1. The problematic protection of psychic integrity - 2. The contribution of psychiatry in the elaboration of criminal cases - 3. Mental manipulation and protection of the free formation of the will - 4. Brainwashing and new religious movements: a problematic combination - 5. The plagiarism as a juridical declination of mental manipulation – 6. A constitutionally oriented interpretation of the art. 603 criminal code? – 7. The consent of the victim as a possible exculpatory? – 8 Horizons de iure condendo: room for maneuver for the citizenship of a repressive norm of manipulative behavior and hermeneutical proposals
Abstract
The contribution aims to examine the adequacy of the protection offered by the current legal system to the free formation of the individual's will, with specific regard to brainwashing phenomena, which often characterize the adhesion to new religious movements.
Keywords
Mental integrity and religious factor; conversion to new religious movements; brainwashing; mental manipulation
