Ponerology

Ponerology is the name given by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Lobaczewski to an interdisciplinary study of the causes of periods of social injustice. [Lobaczewski, A. "Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes", (Grande Prairie: Red Pill Press, 2006), pg. 22. ] This discipline makes use of data from psychology, psychopathology, sociology, philosophy, and history to account for such phenomena as aggressive war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and police states. The original theory and research was conducted by psychologists and psychiatrists working in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary in the years before the institution of Communism such as Kazimierz Dąbrowski and Stefan Blachowski. [Dąbrowski, Kazimierz. "The Dynamics of Concepts" (London: Gryf Publications, 1973)), pp. 37-40.]

Lobaczewski adopted the term from the branch of theology dealing with the study of evil, derived from the Greek word "poneros".

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