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Socialising the Anti-Social: Psychopathy, Psychiatry and Social Engineering in Finland, 1945–1968 (2017)

Parhi, Katariina (Author)
Pietikainen, Petteri (Author)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 637-660
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkw093

URI: https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/shm/hkw093

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Behaviorism Psychiatry Social medicine Diagnosis Mental disorders and diseases 20th century, late Finland

This article argues that in Finland during the two decades after the Second World War, the diagnosis of psychopathy represented a failed attempt to adjust ‘difficult’ individuals to the social order. Discussing the social and medical character of the diagnosis, we examine psychopathy using the analytic and historical framework of social engineering in post-war Finland. We utilise patient records, official documents and psychiatric publications and analyse the diagnostic uses of psychopathy and its associations with social maladjustment. We also address the question of how mental health care in the less-developed northern part of Finland grappled with behavioural deviance, and especially with behaviour deemed ‘anti-social’. Contextualising psychopathy as a marker of individual disorganisation within the development of social organisation, this article contributes to historical scholarship that maps mental disorders onto the historical development of the nation.

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