Biological Psychiatry and The Mass Murder Of ‘Schizophrenics’: From Denial to Inspirational Alternative
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Read, J. and Masson, J. 2022. Biological Psychiatry and The Mass Murder Of ‘Schizophrenics’: From Denial to Inspirational Alternative. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. 24 (2), pp. 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1891/EHPP-2021-0006
Authors | Read, J. and Masson, J. |
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Abstract | This paper documents the murder, by psychiatrists, of a quarter of a million patients, mostly diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’, in Europe during the second world war; and the sterilization of hundreds of thousands more internationally, including the USA and Scandinavia. These sterilizations and murders were justified by biological psychiatry’s unsubstantiated hypothesis that the conditions involved are genetically determined. Gas chambers in the six psychiatric hospitals involved, in Germany, were subsequently dismantled and moved, along with the psychiatrists and their staff, to help establish some of the Holocaust’s concentration camps, in Poland. The avoidance of these facts and their profound implications, by the profession of psychiatry, internationally, over subsequent decades, is discussed. An inspirational trauma-focussed alternative to the pessimistic, unscientific ideology of biological psychiatry, involving psychiatrists 60 years later, is presented. |
Journal | Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry |
Journal citation | 24 (2), pp. 69-85 |
ISSN | 1559-4343 |
1938-9000 | |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | Springer Publishing Company |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Anyone |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1891/EHPP-2021-0006 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 06 Jul 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 28 Feb 2022 |
Deposited | 28 Feb 2022 |
Copyright holder | © 2022 Springer Publishing Company |
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