On 26 November 2010 the German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGPPN) held a commemorative event to honour the memory of those who suffered through one of the darkest chapters in the history of the discipline. Under National Socialism, psychiatric patients were the victims of unethical research, forced sterilisation and murder, and many psychiatrists were forced to emigrate. During the commemorative event, the DGPPN asked victims and their families for forgiveness for the pain and injustice they endured in the name of German psychiatry and at the hands of German psychiatrists. The enclosed DVD...
באביב 2002 יצא ג'ו ברלינגר לוינה כדי לקחת חלק בקבורתם של יותר מ-700 מוחות משומרים של קורבנות ניסוייו של ד"ר היינריך גרוס (Dr. Heinrich Gross) הידוע לשמצה כ"מנגלה האוסטרי". בסרט הדוקומנטרי המרתק הזה מתחקה הבמאי אחר הרופא הדמוני שהמשיך לבצע ניסויים על שאריות הגופות, גם לאחר תום המלחמה. מצמרר.
An episode in Timewatch, a BBC documentary series exploring new perspectives on historical events. This episode deals with the psychological analysis of Adolf Hitler made in 1943 by Walter Langer, an expert of the CIA, and a team of psychologists. The project was based on an in-depth inquiry and was meant to draw a complete useful psychological profile of the German dictator and would assist the Allies in their attempts to predict Hitler’s next steps. The newfangled work of Langer and his team paved the way to a new discipline in international relations called Political Psychology. The analysis, based on Freud’s...