Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals /

When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorscha...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dimsdale, Joel E., 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1945-1946
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Nazis > Psychological testing.
National Socialism > history
Violence > history
Criminals > psychology
Procès de Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Allemagne, 1945-1946.
Nazis > Tests psychologiques.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Germany.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Run-Up To Nuremberg. The Holocaust: How Was This Genocide Different from All the Rest? The Gathering at Ashcan
  • Part Two. Nuremberg. The War Crimes Trial: What Do We Do with the Criminals? War Criminals with Psychiatrists and Psychologists?
  • Part Three. Faces Of Malice. Defendant Robert Ley: "Bad Brain" Defendant Hermann Goring: "Amiable Psychopath" Defendant Julius Streicher: "Bad Man" Defendant Rudolf Hess: "So Plainly Mad"
  • Part Four. Coda To Nuremberg: Rorschachs and Recriminations. Douglas Kelley and Gustave Gilbert: A Collaboration from Hell A Message in the Rorschachs? Malice on a Continuum: The Social Psychologists' Perspective Malice as Categorically Different: Encounters with "the Other."

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