Abstrakt

In the presented lecture the author analyzed the issue of the reception of psychological and psychiatric achievements in the canonical system of marital canon law. On the basis of the teachings of the last Popes and the results of doctrine research, he pointed out that the adoption of the results of psychological and psychiatric research in the canonical system does not have any direct character but should be performed according, to strictly determined methodological principles. This is because any canonist attempting to adopt such achievements ought to adjust them to basic system assumptions of canon legal order. The author of the study demonstrated that such principles were clearly determined in two allocutions to Roman Rota of Pope John Paul II delivered in 1987 and 1988. The speeches of the Pope make it clear that divergence between psychology (or psychiatry) and the canon system as for the judgment of human activities results mainly from different visions of a human being adopted by the representatives of these branches of knowledge. Different anthropological approach has great impact on the assessment of human behavior and also on one’s understanding of marriage. This led the author to the conclusion that in order to unify the judgment about one’s capability to get married, much more effort should be put into developing interdisciplinary anthropology.