“From 1992 to 1995 the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina experienced a war of genocidal proportions between the Bosnian Serbs, the Bosnian Croats, and the Bosnian Muslims. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has indicted Dr. Radovan Karadzic-former President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, psychiatrist, and poet-as a suspected war criminal for his role in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Karadzic remains enigmatic and poorly understood. Psychological profiling highlights in Karadzic’s case the complex coalescence of the psychology of a genocide perpetrator with that of a charismatic narcissistic political leader. Such a profile may possess usefulness in forensic psychiatric investigations and legal proceedings.”
In this preamble to the piece that follows the authors are attempting to invest the bankrupt Srebrenica narrative with an additional layer of purported scholarly respectability by subjecting one of the major protagonists, Republic of Srpska President Radovan Karadžić, to a purported psychological analysis. The resulting amateurish “psychoanalysis” speaks largely for itself. Since Dr. Karadžić is a psychiatrist himself, the authors would probably not make a mistake not just if they decided to follow professional procedure and requested an interview with the patient before indulging in any further writing, but would also probably themselves benefit from the useful insights that Dr. Karadžić might be able to provide about their own state of mind as a result of such an interview.
Genocide in Bosnia – The Case of Dr Radovan Karadzic
Source: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3d86/1b971bb47eaa5b72a6480cc1e6342429e1f1.pdf