Genocide and mass destruction: doing harm to others as a missing dimension in psychopathology.
Psychology and psychiatry lose much of their common-sense credibility so long as they offer no way of defining execution of and participation in mass murder and genocide as pathological. This paper proposes an expansion of the standard classification system in psychopathology to include abuses and destruction of other people, so that persons who terminate the lives of others are defined as "disturbed."
D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D003416:Criminal Law; D005190:Family; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008603:Mental Health; D011057:Politics; D012539:Scapegoating; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012945:Social Values; D014104:Torture; D014754:Violence