THE CRIME OF MENTICIDE

JOOST A. M. MEERLOOAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 107, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.8.594

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The concept of "menticide" indicates an organized system of judicial perversion and psychological intervention, in which a powerful tyrant transfers his own thoughts and words into the minds and mouths of the victims he plans to destroy or to use for his own propaganda. Modern psychiatry may deliver him several tools for this perversion. Our psychiatric standpoint toward this challenge has to be formulated. Examples of menticide are described and ways of protection indicated.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 107 • Number 8 • February 1951

Pages: 594 - 598

PubMed: 14819346

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Published in print: February 1951

Published online: 1 April 2006

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JOOST A. M. MEERLOO

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THE CRIME OF MENTICIDE

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