Psychiatry in Communist Europe [Hardcover]

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.Table of 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 & Ideology: The Emergence of ' 'Asthenic Neurosis ' ' in Communist Romania; Corina Dobo?
6. The History of the Hungarian Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology between 1948 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
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

Challenging standard interpretations of psychiatry in communist-era Europe, this collection offers important contributions to the social history of medicine. The ten chapters illustrate a rich variety of topics, particularly around treatment options, national-cultural differences, and contest within the Soviet psychiatric profession. & the extensive array of primary sources cited, and the variety of topics and settings offered, demonstrates the scope for continuing study in thislã-