Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley (11 August 1912 – January 1, 1958) was a
United States Army
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Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at
Nuremberg Prison
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during the
Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants'
competency before they stood trial.
Life and career
Kelley was born in
Truckee, California
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. He graduated from
University of California at Berkeley
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and received his medical degree from the
School of Medicine in San Francisco. He continued his studies at
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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, earning a Doctor of Medical Science in 1941.
In 1942 he was called to duty in the
United States Army Medical Corps
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as chief psychiatrist for the
30th General Hospital in the
European Theatre
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. Along with psychologist
Gustave Gilbert he administered the
Rorschach inkblot test
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to the 22 defendants in the Nazi leadership group prior to the first Nuremberg trials. Kelley authored two books on the subject: ''Twenty-two Cells in Nuremberg'' and ''The Case of
Rudolph Hess''. After his examination of Hess, Kelley concluded that this defendant suffered from "a true
psychoneurosis
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, primarily of the hysterical type, engrafted on a basic paranoid and
schizoid personality, with
amnesia, partly genuine and partly feigned". His diagnosis was confirmed by at least six other psychiatrists from Russia, France, England and the United States.
Upon honorable discharge in 1946, Kelley was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
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in
North Carolina
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. In 1949 he was appointed Professor of Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley. He served as the President of the then Berkeley-based Society for the Advancement of Criminology (later, the American Society of Criminology) in 1950 and 1951.
Kelley was portrayed by
Stuart Bunce
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Biography
Bunce was born in Beckenham, Ke ...
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's nonfiction book ''The Nazi And The Psychiatrist''.
in front of his wife, father and oldest son on New Year's Day 1958 during a family gathering to watch the Rose Bowl game on television. He died by ingesting
, whom Kelley had come to know during his psychiatric evaluation at Nuremberg. According to ''
'', Kelley was alcoholic and despondent by that time and had a "history of dark moods"; he had also expressed admiration "for Göring’s control over his own death". Neither his son nor wife could shed light on the motivation for the suicide. In an interview, son Doug Kelley recounted the circumstances: "He was cooking dinner, burned himself and exploded. The next thing we knew, he was on the stairs saying he was going to swallow the potassium cyanide and that he'd be dead in 30 seconds".
He did as threatened and died in the bathroom, leaving no suicide note.
* ''22 Cells in Nuremberg. A Psychiatrist Examines the Nazi Criminals.'' London: W. H. Allen, 1947.
*
: ''The Rorschach Technique. A Manual for a Projective Method of Personality Diagnosis.'' With Clinical Contributions by Douglas McGlashan Kelley; introduction by Nolan D. C. Lewis. Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Comp. 1942.
* Jack El-Hai : ''The Nazi and the Psychiatrist'', Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2013,