All through psychiatry’s history there have been attempts to manipulate and control aspects of society way beyond any clinical address and based solely on the opinions of psychiatrists and others who control the subject.
A partial screening of “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream”—an award-winning documentary exploring the legal history of the eugenics movement in the United States
We find a subject based on speculation, unable to establish causes of mental illness and whose primary solution is to murder the very people it should be caring for.
Aktion T4 is the mass murder of the disabled and patients of psychiatric asylums by psychiatrists and the directors of the asylums.
Kraepelin bears responsibility for and helped set the stage for the mass murders of Aktion T4 and through his proteges provided the rationale and ‘scientific foundation’ for what became The Holocaust.
This video covers the history of eugenics, or “racial hygiene,” in Germany and the United States throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The… Read More »A History of Eugenics
DR MARK KOMRAD Per Lanterna: A psychiatry ethicist’s viewpoint on the rising trend of psychiatric euthanasia based on government edict and historical comparisons. This informative… Read More »The Role of Psychiatrists in the U.S. Eugenics & Sterilization Movements and the Nazi Holocaust
A very informative and heartfelt video on the Aktion T4 euthanasia program run by psychiatrists prior to and during World War II in Germany.