Our Mission

When a human being kills another human being, we are likely to call this murder, consider it a crime and may believe the murderer is suffering from a form of psychopathology. When leaders murder human beings in the name of nation-states, on the other hand, killing rarely is viewed in these terms. The Foundation for the Study of Political Psychopathology will explore political murder and the question of why killings performed under the rubric of nation-states and political ideologies are not conceived as abnormal. We investigate what may be considered the psychopathology of normality.

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