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June 6, 1967. THE PSYCHOGENETIC FACTOR IN THE RECURRENCE OF WAR. Martin Wangh, M.D.
While the recurrence of wars is usually explained on political and economic grounds, Dr. Wangh argues that, in addition, psychogenetic factors are of great importance. Wars and revolutions occur with a fairly regular periodicity, approximately once in each generation. Some generations seem to escape the war cycle, but at times experience a major civil conflagration which has a significance similar to war (e.g., the turmoil in France, characterized by the Dreyfus affair, between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I).