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Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century
This article demonstrates how psychoanalytic thought, especially ideas by Adler, Reik, Deutsch, and Alexander and Staub, informed forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands from the late 1920s. An analysis of psychiatric explanations of the crime of infanticide shows how in these cases the focus of (for...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33569987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X21989174 |
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description | This article demonstrates how psychoanalytic thought, especially ideas by Adler, Reik, Deutsch, and Alexander and Staub, informed forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands from the late 1920s. An analysis of psychiatric explanations of the crime of infanticide shows how in these cases the focus of (forensic) medicine and psychiatry shifted from somatic medicine to a psychoanalytic emphasis on unconscious motives. A psychoanalytic vocabulary can also be found in the reports written by forensic psychiatrists and psychologists in court cases in the 1950s. The new psychoanalytic emphasis on unconscious motives implied a stronger focus on the personality of the suspect. This article argues that psychoanalysis accelerated this development in the mid-twentieth century, contributing to the role of the psy-sciences in normalization processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-81074412021-05-17 Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century Ruberg, Willemijn Hist Psychiatry Articles This article demonstrates how psychoanalytic thought, especially ideas by Adler, Reik, Deutsch, and Alexander and Staub, informed forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands from the late 1920s. An analysis of psychiatric explanations of the crime of infanticide shows how in these cases the focus of (forensic) medicine and psychiatry shifted from somatic medicine to a psychoanalytic emphasis on unconscious motives. A psychoanalytic vocabulary can also be found in the reports written by forensic psychiatrists and psychologists in court cases in the 1950s. The new psychoanalytic emphasis on unconscious motives implied a stronger focus on the personality of the suspect. This article argues that psychoanalysis accelerated this development in the mid-twentieth century, contributing to the role of the psy-sciences in normalization processes. SAGE Publications 2021-02-11 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8107441/ /pubmed/33569987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X21989174 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch
forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century |
title_full | Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch
forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century |
title_fullStr | Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch
forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century |
title_full_unstemmed | Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch
forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century |
title_short | Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch
forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century |
title_sort | infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on dutch
forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33569987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X21989174 |
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