Article ID: CBB558146669

Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century (2021)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Stephens, Elizabeth
Cryle, Peter
Jones, David W.
Jacomien Gijzeman
Fatović-Ferenčić, Stella
Boriaud, Jean-Yves
Concepts
Psychoanalysis
Criminology
Forensic psychiatry
Unconscious (psychology)
Psychology
Psychiatry
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Renaissance
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Russia
Canada
Asia
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