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Open to Interpretation…The Art and Science of Inkblots
Ashland, OH: Hogrefe, 2009
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Principles of Neuropsychology
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Military Psychology: Clinical and Operational Applications
New York, NY: Guilford, 2006
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The Quest for
the Nazi Personality

Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995

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Neuropsychological Assessment and Intervention
Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas, 1992
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THE QUEST FOR THE NAZI PERSONALITY:
A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals

Eric A. Zillmer, Molly Harrower, Barry A. Ritzler, & Robert P. Archer
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995

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Was the Eichmann test ordered as part of the court proceedings?

A court-ordered psychiatrist evaluated him. I believe the results were used in court, but they were really not interested in his psychological make-up. A psychological analysis was attempted in the New Yorker which made him out to be a monster and which was inconsistent with Hannah Arendt's thesis of the "banality of evil."

Eichmann was also given the Bender-Gestalt drawing test. His drawings, which were also interpreted in the New Yorker, apparently showed how disturbed he was. That was a very controversial article because it was written with the clear intent to pathologize Eichmann.

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