September 19, 2013
Listening to Stories from Nazis
Psychiatrist Douglas Kelley used a new psychological test to draw stories from the top Nazi defendants at Nuremberg, and what he heard changed his life.
Stories by Jack El-Hai
Jack El-Hai is the author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs Books). He previously published The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and his Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (Wiley). A writer on the history of medicine and science, he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Augsburg College.
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