The Psychiatry of Quislingism
Norwegian Psychiatric Research on the Collaborators of World War II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14670790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Øyvind Giæver (University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-292 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0269889704000134 |
| PMID | 15617223 |
| OpenAlex | W2125176233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Argument The paper focuses on a research project launched by Norwegian psychiatrists immediately following World War II. The project sought to investigate the roots of quislingism (collaboration with the Nazis) through psychiatric research on the collaborators. Considered with hindsight, however, the methodology of the project seems puzzlingly shallow. The paper discusses whether this was due to a general lack of adequate methodology in the contemporaneous sciences, or whether the explanation must be sought in the project's social and historical context. Ultimately, I conclude that considerable weight must be placed on the latter explanation, and that the general political ostracism of the collaborators in the postwar years played a major role in the psychiatrists' attitude
Criminology · Hindsight bias · Mental health · Nazism · Norwegian · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Social psychiatry · World War II · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |