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Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors

By Melvin , Voren , Robert van; Sabshin

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2010
ISBN
9042030461, 978-90-420-3046-6, 978-90-420-3047-3, 904203047X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5409863 bytes)
Series
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics 23
Pages
512\519
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1925- American Psychiatric Association. World PMelvinPsychiatry -- Soviet Union -- History. Cold War --

Description

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

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