Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War : Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining the Human Psyche /

This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War. In the context of Yugoslavia's traumatic split from the Soviet Union in 1948, the authorities embarked on a period of theorising and constructing a different form of socialist society, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Antić, Ana (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Subjects:	Russia-History. Europe, Eastern-History. Soviet Union-History. Medicine-History. World history. Social history. Psychiatry. Russian, Soviet, and East European History. History of Medicine. World History, Global and Transnational History. Social History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Primitivism, Modernity and Revolution in the Twentieth Century
3. Psychotherapy as Revolutionary Praxis
4. Authoritarian Psychiatry
5. Global Imaginations and Non-alignment
6. 'Psy' Sciences beyond the Consulting Room
7. Epilogue
8. Conclusion. .