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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520063303321

Autore

Antić Ana

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030894498

3030894495

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages)

Collana

Mental Health in Historical Perspective, , 2634-6044

Disciplina

909.825

949.7023

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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. .

Sommario/riassunto

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, and clinicians and researchers from the 'psy' disciplines saw their role as central to raising a new, revolutionary generation of Yugoslav citizens. This study argues that socialist psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia played an exceptionally important political role and contributed to some of the core discussions of democratic socialism, workers' self-management and Marxism. It argues that the Yugoslav brand of East-West psychoanalysis and psychotherapy bred a truly unique intellectual framework in order to think through a set of political and ideological dilemmas regarding the relationship between individuals and social structures. The book therefore offers a thorough reinterpretation ofthe notion of 'communist psychiatry' as a tool used solely for political oppression and emphasises instead the original political interventions of East European psychiatry and psychoanalysis.