From Kraepelin to Karadzic: psychiatry's long road to genocide
TítuloFrom Kraepelin to Karadzic: psychiatry's long road to genocide
Autor
Call number364.151/0006
Número del objeto08275d
Lugar de publicaciónSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Año de publicación
2012
Paginaciónpp122-165
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Genocide perspectives IV' pp122-165
Descripción
Explores the continuity of some appalling psychiatric notions and practices that have assailed genocide from the precursor era to the Nazis and beyond to the more recent genocidal events in Bosnia. We have little in the genocide literature on the socialisation, mindsets, and personalities of perpetrators, and this essay 'humanises' these inhumane destroyers of people