State of Madness : Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin

State of Madness : Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin /

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize...

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Main Author: Reich, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Dekalb [Illinois] : NIU Press,
Series:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Subjects:
Psychiatry > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Dissenters > Soviet Union.
Involuntary treatment > Soviet Union.
Mental illness > Soviet Union.
Psychiatry > Soviet Union > History.
Literature and mental illness > Soviet Union.
Psychiatry > history
History, 20th Century
Psychiatry in Literature
USSR
Electronic books.
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