Therapeutic Fascism - Antic, Ana (Lecturer in twentieth-century international history, Lecturer in twentieth-century international history, University of Exeter)

A novel exploration of the history of extreme violence in the Balkans during World War Two, Therapeutic Fascism draws on previously-unexplored sources, such as psychiatric patient case histories, to document how authoritarian regimes of the mid-twentieth century utilized psychiatric and psychoanalytic concepts and techniques to assert authority.