Opinion | By April 27, 2007 | By Frank MacHovec, MA, PhDcloseFrank MacHovec, MA, PhD Name: Frank MacHovec
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About: Dr. MacHovec is a retired clinical psychologist who worked 30 years in mental health clinics and hospitals and in private practice. In addition to BA, MA, and PhD degrees, he earned two post-PhD diplomates and was a certified forensics examiner who testified as expert witness in civil and criminal cases. | 14 Comments

Is War A Psychosis?

I have no future but I am a force.
– Robin Williams, as a terrorist, in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1996

In 1967, the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing wrote, “Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Normal men have killed 100 million of their fellow men in the past 50 years.” Wartime behavior deviates markedly from crosscultural social norms and values. Read more →