In France it's common for the court to ask to a psychoanalyst or a psychologist (not to a psychic) to tell what the defendant was "really" thinking and feeling,

In France it's common for the court to ask to a psychoanalyst or a psychologist (not to a psychic) to tell what the defendant was "really" thinking and feeling, in order to decide to decide whether the defendant was responsible for his actions or not. “There is no crime or offense when the defendant was in a state of insanity at the time of offense, or when he was constrained by a force he could not resist. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387428/