Distant warfare shifts psychiatry from victims’ trauma to perpetrators’ guilt.

Evidence

And what if drone psychopathology lay not where it is believed to be, in the possible traumas of the drone operators, but in the industrial production of compartmentalized psyches, immunized against any possibility of reflecting upon their own violence, just as their bodies are already immunized against any possibility of being exposed to the enemy? — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 427 (#expands, via linked claim)

In a civilised society, torture has no more counter-productive and insidious long-term effect than the way that it tends to demoralise the inflicter even more than his victim. Frantz Fanon, the militant Martiniquais psychiatrist, cites several examples of acute, lingering neurosis induced among the tortured; a kind of anorexia suffered by the innocent who had been put to la question wrongfully; pins-and-needles and a lasting fear of turning on a light switch, or touching a telephone, in those who had experienced the gégène. But just as psychically impaired were numerous cases like that of the European police inspector found guilty of torturing his own wife and children, which he explained as resulting from what he had been required to do to Algerian suspects — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 614 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators; Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 614; Brutalizing war and fear of losing drove army torture institutionalization (+2 more)

Related

• Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators (similarity 0.86)
• Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim (similarity 0.83)
• Suppressing conscience in soldiers led directly to military torture (similarity 0.79)
• Drone operations constitute a pure case of perpetration-induced traumatic stress. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone psychopathology lies in produced compartmentalization, not operator trauma (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Drone psychopathology lies in produced compartmentalization, not operator trauma #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 427
• Torture psychologically damages the torturer even more than the victim #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 614
• Brutalizing war and fear of losing drove army torture institutionalization #expands (0.45)
• Victims’ aggression gets reframed as the victim’s own deviance #complicates (0.40)