Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors /
Voren, Robert van.
Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors / Robert van Voren. - 1 online resource (xviii, 512 pages) - On the boundary of two worlds ; 23 . - On the Boundary of Two Worlds 23. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 488-499) and indexes.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Meeting Mel Sabshin -- Melvin Sabshin’s Roots -- From Russia to the Statue of Liberty -- Meeting Jochen Neumann -- Growing up in Post-War Germany -- Shaken Foundations -- Political Turmoil at Tulane University -- The Formation of a Communist -- Origins of Soviet Political Psychiatry -- Meeting Ellen Mercer -- The Shield and Sword of the Party -- Opposition at Home and Abroad -- A Secret Actor -- The End of the Working Commission -- The WPA Becomes Involved -- The Soviets Leave the WPA -- Another Hidden Factor -- Meeting Costas Stefanis -- Soviet Actors -- Secret Negotiations? -- A Professional Career with Political Hurdles -- Reporting for the DDR Leadership -- Power Struggle in Moscow -- Political Changes at Home -- Irritation, Admiration and Disenchantment -- Psychiatric Abuse and East-West Politics -- the US Visit to the USSR -- Granada -- Athens -- Aftermath -- Siegerjustiz and its consequences -- Victors and Losers -- Lessons Learned. Any Lessons Learned? -- Post Scriptum -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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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.
9789042030473
10.1163/9789042030473 DOI
Cold War (1945-1989)
Psychiatry--History.--Soviet Union
Cold War--Influence.
Psychiatry.
War--Influence.
Soviet Union.
History.
RC451.S65 / V67 2010eb
616.8900947
Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors / Robert van Voren. - 1 online resource (xviii, 512 pages) - On the boundary of two worlds ; 23 . - On the Boundary of Two Worlds 23. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 488-499) and indexes.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Meeting Mel Sabshin -- Melvin Sabshin’s Roots -- From Russia to the Statue of Liberty -- Meeting Jochen Neumann -- Growing up in Post-War Germany -- Shaken Foundations -- Political Turmoil at Tulane University -- The Formation of a Communist -- Origins of Soviet Political Psychiatry -- Meeting Ellen Mercer -- The Shield and Sword of the Party -- Opposition at Home and Abroad -- A Secret Actor -- The End of the Working Commission -- The WPA Becomes Involved -- The Soviets Leave the WPA -- Another Hidden Factor -- Meeting Costas Stefanis -- Soviet Actors -- Secret Negotiations? -- A Professional Career with Political Hurdles -- Reporting for the DDR Leadership -- Power Struggle in Moscow -- Political Changes at Home -- Irritation, Admiration and Disenchantment -- Psychiatric Abuse and East-West Politics -- the US Visit to the USSR -- Granada -- Athens -- Aftermath -- Siegerjustiz and its consequences -- Victors and Losers -- Lessons Learned. Any Lessons Learned? -- Post Scriptum -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789042030473
10.1163/9789042030473 DOI
Cold War (1945-1989)
Psychiatry--History.--Soviet Union
Cold War--Influence.
Psychiatry.
War--Influence.
Soviet Union.
History.
RC451.S65 / V67 2010eb
616.8900947