Psychiatry in communist Europe / edited by Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marks, Sarah, 1984- editor.

Savelli, Mat, 1982- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Mental health in historical perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Europe--20th century--History.

Psychiatry.

Mental health--Europe--History.

Mental health.

Psychiatric hospitals--Europe--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatry--history.

History.

Europe.

Medical Subjects:

Psychiatry--history.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"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. It challenges assumptions about the extent of political control, exploring beyond the instances of punitive abuse of psychiatry, and recognizing the international exchanges which informed the development of research and practice in the region.The authors discuss:[bullet] Treatments such as work therapy, insulin shock therapy, antipsychotic medications[bullet] International exchanges between the USA, Western Europe, USSR and Central Asia[bullet] Environmental, social and biological explanations of mental health and illness[bullet] The relationship between psychiatry, ideology and the Communist state[bullet] Soviet reponses to antipsychiatry and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Communist Europe and Transnational Psychiatry / Sarah Marks and Mat Savelli

2. The Dialectics of Labour in a Psychiatric Ward: Work Therapy in the Kaschenko Hospital / Irina Sirotkina and Marina Kokorina

3. Insulin Coma Therapy and the Construction of Therapeutic Effectiveness in Stalin's Soviet Union, 1936-1953 / Benjamin Zajicek

4. Soviet Psychiatry and Drug Addiction in Central Asia: The Construction of 'Narcomania' / Alisher Latypov

5. Psychiatry and Ideology: The Emergence of 'Asthenic Neurosis' in Communist Romania / Corina Doboș

6. The History of the Hungarian Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology between 1945 and 1968 / Melinda Kovai

7. Ecology, Humanism, and Mental Health in Communist Czechoslovakia / Sarah Marks

8. Beyond the Therapeutic Revolution: Psychopharmaceuticals Crossing the Berlin Wall / Volker Hess, translated from the German by Arthur Eaton

9. Blame George Harrison: Drug Use and Psychiatry in Communist Yugoslavia / Mat Savelli

10. Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Russian Variations on a Psychiatric Theme / Rebecca Reich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781137490919

1137490918

OCLC:

907658326

Publisher Number:

99963816237