Prof. Nevzat Tarhan: "Wars can turn children into crime machines..."
Psychiatrist Prof. Nevzat Tarhan stated that "The trauma of war is more traumatizing than the natural disaster. Because it is a trauma caused by human hands," while pointing out that the majority of those who were harmed by the war were children. Emphasizing that children can turn into crime machines after war, Tarhan said that wars leave post-traumatic stress disorder and depression behind.
Psychiatrist Prof. Nevzat Tarhan drew attention to the aggressive impulses in the human brain according to neuroscience.
Reminding that Freud and Einstein's correspondence on war was turned into a book, Prof. Nevzat Tarhan explained that human beings are beings with the capacity to kill their own race, that is their own kind, and that Einstein and Freud could not find an answer to the reason why this happens.
The excess of desire makes a person aggressive...
Noting that world-famous philosophers discuss three basic emotions in human beings, the first of which is, the feeling of rage, the other is desire, and the third is the sense of reason, that is, power, strength, Prof. Nevzat Tarhan said: "For example, rage and the extreme emotion of anger lead to aggression and war. This is also valid for the current events, too. The excess of the feeling of desire also makes one aggressive. It makes us aggressive without following the rules and caring morality and honor.”
There is a predisposition to aggression according to neuroscience
Prof. Nevzat Tarhan stated that "According to neuroscience, there are really aggression impulses and tendencies in the human brain. There is no tendency to crime; however, there is a tendency to aggression." Tarhan explained that if the person with an aggressive tendency directed their aggression impulse to sports at a young age, they would have expressed themselves in an acceptable area. If a person does this without any rules, they would emerge as a ruthless and merciless and person without caring anybody.
He was brought up with the ego that is without compare in the world...
Drawing attention to another feature apart from the feeling of aggression that is not found in other living things, but in humans, Tarhan gave an example from Hitler and noted that he was raised by his mother by inflating his ego by saying 'there is no equal in the world', and that he was raised with a hard working but corrupt moral norms and low conscientious intelligence.
The narcissism caused by the power of Israel and the United States
Prof. Nevzat Tarhan stated that "The most ruthless and merciless person is the narcissist,” and Tarhan added that what Israel and the United States are doing in the Palestine-Israel war is completely power poisoning and narcissism caused by power.
Prof. Nevzat Tarhan said: "In history, narcissistic people succeed temporarily, like the example of Hitler, shed blood, children die, and people become victims and oppressed, but as a result, they go to the bin of history.” Tarhan stated that these people left behind post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
Events are taking place that devastate the global conscience
Reminding that civilians die more in anomalous wars and that there are many civilian deaths in Gaza, Prof. Tarhan said: "Half of the dead are children and mothers. There is a very serious and brutal war going on.”
Stating that in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was published by the United Nations in 1989, Tarhan said that "The personality of the child can develop fully and harmoniously in the atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding in the family environment." Prof. Tarhan stated that "Now you see the family environment. They are shattered in war. Children who look at their dead mothers sufferingly… The deaths of children frozen in blood and dust in their parents’ arms... These devastate to the global conscience.”
Referring to the issue of trauma, Prof. Nevzat Tarhan said: "War trauma causes more trauma than natural disasters because it is a trauma caused by human hands. The vast majority of those who have suffered due to the war are children."
Post-war children can become crime machines...
Stating that some of the children became crime machines after the wars, Tarhan said that some of them could be introverted and depressed children.
Prof. Tarhan said that “In war children ask that 'Why are they fighting? Why do people kill each other?'. Tarhan explained that they look at the adults because they cannot make sense of it, and that if the adults are cold-blooded and show a correct attitude, the children experience the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder less.
Üsküdar News Agency (ÜNA)