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Diagnosing literary genius : a cultural history of psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930 / Irina Sirotkina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sirotkina, Irina.
- Series:
- Medicine & culture.
- Medicine & culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry--Russia--History--19th century.
- Psychiatry.
- Psychiatry--Russia--History--20th century.
- Russian literature--19th century.
- Russian literature.
- Russian literature--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction I
- 1 Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 14
- 2 Dostoevsky: From Epilepsy to Progeneration 45
- 3 Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia 74
- 4 Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health 117
- 5 The Institute of Genius: Psychiatry in the Early Soviet Years I45.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7689-3
- OCLC:
- 923190935
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