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Psychiatry in Communist Europe
About this book
This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the interplay between politics, ideology and psychiatry.
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Yes, you can access Psychiatry in Communist Europe by Sarah Marks, Mat Savelli, Sarah Marks,Mat Savelli in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Eastern European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Communist Europe andTransnational Psychiatry
- 2 The Dialectics of Labour in aPsychiatric Ward: Work Therapyin the Kaschenko Hospital
- 3 Insulin Coma Therapy and the Construction of Therapeutic Effectiveness in Stalin’s Soviet Union, 1936–1953
- 4 Soviet Psychiatry and Drug Addiction in Central Asia:The Construction of ‘Narcomania’
- 5 Psychiatry and Ideology: The Emergence of ‘Asthenic Neurosis’in Communist Romania
- 6 The History of the Hungarian Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology between 1945 and 1968
- 7 Ecology, Humanism and Mental Health in Communist Czechoslovakia
- 8 Beyond the Therapeutic Revolution: Psychopharmaceuticals Crossing the Berlin Wall
- 9 Blame George Harrison: Drug Use and Psychiatry in Communist Yugoslavia
- 10 Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Russian Variations on a Psychiatric Theme
- Index