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Author Voren, Robert van.

Title Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors / Robert van Voren
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 512 pages)
Series On the boundary of two worlds ; 23
On the boundary of two worlds ; 23.
Contents pt. 1. Setting the stage -- pt. 2. The curtain opens -- pt. 3. Act one -- pt. 4. Act two -- pt. 5. The final act -- pt. 6. The curtains close -- pt. 7. Conclusion
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-499) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Psychiatry -- Soviet Union -- History
Cold War -- Influence.
Medical ethics.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Social control.
Psychiatry -- history
Ethics, Medical
Dissent and Disputes -- history
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Social Control, Formal
Societies, Medical
History, 20th Century
psychiatric hospitals.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
Social control
Psychiatric hospitals
Medical ethics
Psychiatry
War -- Influence
SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Europe
Subject Europe
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789042030473
904203047X