Mass Murderers in White Coats: Psychiatric Genocide in Nazi Germany and the United States

Mass Murderers in White Coats documents the mass murder of "mental patients" by psychiatry in Nazi Germany, which served as a precursor ideologically and logistically for the later extermination of six million Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution in concentration camps. Comprehensive research — with extensive notes — is used to illustrate the common roots of psychiatric practice in Germany and the United States, a history that includes eugenics and torturous, dehumanizing, and sometim...