International Journal of Forensic Research(IJFR)

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, New York, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  Why War? Parallel with Freuds Reply to Einsteins Query
  Author(s): Saeed Shoja Shafti
  
  ‘War’ is stereotypically a state of open and declared, hostile armed conflict between states or nations. Politically, war may be considered as a tool of the government, and a sensible apparatus of national policy, based on the expenses and advantages of warfare. According to some scholars, war and peace are the ways to achieve a regulatory compromise between manifestations of human mentality, and the influence of the external environment through natural selection. On the other hand, for the past hundred years, medicine and society have shown a growing interest in combat reactions, and the focus has shifted from an organic one towards a psychological and psychiatric perspective. Like many other pacifist scholars, war was the concern of Einstein, who asked Freud regarding any cognitive strategy for protecting manhood from the threat of war, especially when some psychological.. Read More»
  

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