Germany under National Socialism

Despite all the evidence, the political implications of the therapeutic character of Nazism, and of the use of medical metaphors in modern democracies, remain underappreciated or, more often, ignored. It is a touchy subject, not because the story makes psychiatrists in Nazi Germany look bad. That has been accepted and dismissed as an abuse of psychiatry. Rather, it is a touchy subject because it highlights the dramatic similarities between pharmacratic controls in Germany under National Socialism and in the United States under what is euphemistically called the free market. ... 

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