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Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War - Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining the Human Psyche (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War - Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining the Human Psyche (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry
and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing Yugoslav 'psy'
sciences as they experienced multiple internationalisations and
globalisations in the post-WWII period. These unique transnational
connections - with West, East and South - remain at the centre of
this book. The author argues that the 'psy' disciplines provide a
window onto the complications of Cold War internationalism,
offering an opportunity to re-think postwar Europe's internal
dynamics. She tells an alternative, pan-European narrative of the
post-1945 period, demonstrating that, in the Cold War, there
existed sites of collaboration and vigorous exchange between the
two ideologically opposed camps, and places like Yugoslavia
provided a meeting point, where ideas, frameworks and professional
and cultural networks from both sides of the Iron Curtain could
overlap and transform each other. Moreover, the book offers the
first analysis of East European psychiatrists' contacts with and
contributions to the decolonizing world, exploring their
participation in broader political discussions about
decolonization, anti-imperialism and non-alignment. The Yugoslav
brand of East-West psychoanalysis and psychotherapy bred a truly
unique intellectual framework, which enabled psychiatrists to think
through a set of political and ideological dilemmas regarding the
relationship between individuals and social structures. This book
offers a thorough reinterpretation of the notion of 'communist
psychiatry' as a tool used solely for political oppression, and
instead emphasises the political interventions of East European
psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
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