Political ponerology

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Political ponerology is a concept popularized by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski.^[1] Łobaczewski advocated using the fields of psychology, sociology, philosophy, and history to account for such phenomena as aggressive war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and despotism.