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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459285903321

Autore

Voren Robert van

Titolo

Cold War in psychiatry [[electronic resource] ] : human factors, secret actors / / Robert van Voren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Editions Rodopi, 2010

ISBN

1-282-72714-1

9786612727146

90-420-3047-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Collana

On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; ; 23

Disciplina

616.8/9

Soggetti

Psychiatry - Soviet Union - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Setting the stage -- pt. 2. The curtain opens -- pt. 3. Act one -- pt. 4. Act two -- pt. 5. The final act -- pt. 6. The curtains close -- pt. 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

For 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full story for the first time and from inside, among others on basis of extensive reports by Stasi and KGB – who were the secret actors, what were the hidden factors? Based on a wealth of new evidence and documentation as well as interviews with many of the main actors, including leading Western psychiatrists, Soviet dissidents and Soviet and East German key figures, the book describes the issue in all its complexity and puts it in a broader context. In the book opposite sides find common ground and a common understanding of what actually happened.