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Managing Misfits

Managing Misfits. Psychopathy and Finnish Forensic Psychiatry in the E arly T wentieth Century. Katariina Parhi, University of Oulu. katariina.parhi(at)oulu.fi Historical Perspectives on ASPD. Queen Mary, 12th of May , 2014.

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Managing Misfits

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  1. ManagingMisfits Psychopathy and FinnishForensicPsychiatry in the EarlyTwentiethCentury Katariina Parhi, University of Oulu. katariina.parhi(at)oulu.fi HistoricalPerspectives on ASPD. Queen Mary, 12th of May, 2014

  2. Whatwasmeantbypsychopathy in Finnishforensicpsychiatry?

  3. Crazy in a way? I shouldhaveleftthem [allthosepettyquarrels] alreadywhen I sacrificed my innocentchildren to getrid of allthisevil, stupid, dirty and low with them. Butlastwinter I wasstillcrazy…in a way. J., a prisonerdiagnosed with degeneratiopsychopathica

  4. Forensicpsychiatry and psychopathy diagnosisessential in the development of Finnishforensicpsychiatry ”- - deviantindividuals, alsoknown as psychopaths, - - criminalityhademanatedfromthemalsobeforetheirevidentinsanity” Ernst Therman (1914) Akseli Nikula (1922): most of the insanecriminalsaresocalledborderlines: psychopaths

  5. PsychiatricHospital for Prisoners in Turku, Finland Photo: PsychiatricHospital for Prisoners

  6. [The patient] whodoesnotevenbelong in thishospital, is to someextent a lowly, psychopathic person, whomighthaveimmenseoutbursts, buthasnotshowedanykind of symptoms of a mentalillnesswhilebeinghere, and cantherefore, with success, getalong in prison, wheretherearemostprobablymeans to mute and calmdownoutburststhataretooloud.

  7. Whattype of reportedbehaviourresulted in the diagnosis? Patientswhocrossed the border of ”normality” Prisoners, whoneeded to beconstantlymonitored, whowereactingviolentlyordisturbingly, whosepoliticalviewswere in conflict with the prisonstaff, whosesymptomsdidnotdidnotfit the description of anyotherdiagnosis’ symptomatology

  8. Psychopathy in the earlytwentiethcentury = Anomalies, mostlythoseseen as antisocialbehaviour, grouped into a scientificdiseaseentity

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