title: [The foreign evil].
abstract: The strange as well as the criminal may serve to maintain a person's psychohygiene. They help to take the burden of internal psychological conflicts from the individual's shoulders, but at the same time confine his personal growth and his ability to become aware of his own dark sides.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erdheim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011287:Prejudice; D011385:Projection; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
vernacular_title: Das fremde Böse.