State of Madness Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent after Stalin |
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| Author:
| Reich, Rebecca |
| Series title: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87580-775-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2018 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Imprint: | Northern Illinois University Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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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 dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as...
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 dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as...