TY  - BOOK
AU  - Antonetta,Susanne
TI  - The devil's castle: Nazi eugenics, euthanasia, and how psychiatry's troubled history reverberates today 
SN  - 9781640094024
AV  - RC339.G3 A58 2025
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Buck, Dorothea,
KW  - Schreber, Daniel Paul,
KW  - Aktion T4 (Germany)
KW  - Psychiatric ethics
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - Germany
KW  - Euthanasia
KW  - Psychiatric hospital care
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Schizophrenics
KW  - Biography
KW  - National socialism and science
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The great wonder and the great strangeness -- The natural self-cleansing of our people : Emil Kraepelin and his legacy -- The normal and the sick : Philippe Pinel to Ernst Pienitz -- The truth in Schreber’s delusions
N2  - "In The Devil's Castle, Susanne Paola Antonetta weaves a haunting narrative that confronts the darkest chapters of psychiatric history while offering a bold vision for the future of mental health care. In 1939, the eugenics movement growing throughout the West did its worst in Nazi Germany. Through the Aktion T4 euthanasia program, five asylums and an abandoned jail were transformed into gas chambers. Tens of thousands of lives-predominantly adults with neuropsychiatric conditions-were extinguished in those structures, ultimately paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust. Interlacing her experiences of psychosis with the complex history of psychiatry, Antonetta sheds light on the intersections of madness and societal perceptions of mental difference. She brings to life the stories of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck, two historical figures who act as models for mind care and acceptance"-- Provided by publisher
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