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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780194403321

Autore

Sirotkina Irina

Titolo

Diagnosing literary genius [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930 / / Irina Sirotkina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-8018-7689-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Medicine & culture

Disciplina

616.89/00947

Soggetti

Psychiatry - Russia - History - 19th century

Psychiatry - Russia - History - 20th century

Russian literature - 19th century

Russian literature - 20th century

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 (p. [241]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.