Personal and Social Psychopathology and the Primary Prevention of Violence
LEON J. SAUL M.D.1
1 Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and is also in private practice
Children reared with love and respect mature adequately and become loving, responsible, and productive spouses, parents, and citizens. Those reared in such a way that they hate their parents will also hate other persons for life. If repressed, this pathological hostility causes neuroses; if it is acted out, it results in crime, tyranny, revolution, and aggressive war. The author believes that this kind of individual is the primary cause of violence in the world today.
