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This chapter explores the vilification of psychiatric patients with childhood histories of sexual victimization or exploitation by the “medical men” and social workers who shaped the emerging specialty of psychiatric social work in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century. It examines conceptions of evil that converged in diagnostic constructions of these patients, all of whom were involuntarily hospitalized at Boston Psychopathic Hospital and who exhibited seemingly irrepressible sexual behavior, regarded as deviant by society.
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Van Slyke, V. (2006). The Vilification of Victimized Children in Historical Perspective. In: Mason, T. (eds) Forensic Psychiatry. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-006-5_11
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