| International Standard Book Number |
9781640094031 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781640094024 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1640094024 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Antonetta, Susanne, 1956- author.
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| Title Statement |
The devil's castle : Nazi eugenics, euthanasia, and how psychiatry's troubled history reverberates today / Susanne Paola Antonetta.
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| Edition Statement |
First Counterpoint edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Los Angeles, CA : Counterpoint, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
325 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325)
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The great wonder and the great strangeness -- The natural self-cleansing of our people: Emil Kraepelin and his legacy -- The normal and the sick: Philippe Pinel to Ernst Pienitz -- The truth in Schreber's delusions -- The subjectivity of perfection: euthanasia in the world -- To make the world more human: Dorothea Buck -- Lyric time: with Buck and Schreber -- If not everything human had been fallen to ashes: Nazi euthanasia -- The cabinet of unresolved pasts: T4 and beyond -- Soooo many kisses: the story of Friedrich Mennecke -- Unknown ways that are hieroglyphical: at Sonnenstein asylum -- The business of setting up world government: Nuremberg and after -- An impoverished philosophy of being -- God is totally incapable: the euthanasia trials -- How shall we know them: the DSM-III and the Rosenhan experiments -- On being insane in insane places: a timeline -- The special madman -- The ordinary madwoman -- Testimony.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In The Devil's Castle, Susanne Paola Antonetta weaves a haunting narrative that confronts the darkest chapters of psychiatric history while offering a bold vision for the future of mental health care. In 1939, the eugenics movement growing throughout the West did its worst in Nazi Germany. Through the Aktion T4 euthanasia program, five asylums and an abandoned jail were transformed into gas chambers. Tens of thousands of lives-predominantly adults with neuropsychiatric conditions-were extinguished in those structures, ultimately paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust. Interlacing her experiences of psychosis with the complex history of psychiatry, Antonetta sheds light on the intersections of madness and societal perceptions of mental difference. She brings to life the stories of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck, two historical figures who act as models for mind care and acceptance"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Buck, Dorothea, 1917-2019
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
Aktion T4 (Germany)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Psychiatric ethics History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Eugenics History 20th century. Germany
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Euthanasia History 20th century. Germany
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Psychiatric hospital care History 20th century. Germany
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Schizophrenics Germany Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
National socialism and science.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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