State of Madness : : Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin / / Rebecca Reich.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (283 p.) :; 2 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Soviet Psychiatry and the Art of Diagnosis
- CHAPTER 2 Thinking Differently: The Case of the Dissidents
- CHAPTER 3 Dialogue of Selves: The Case of Joseph Brodsky
- CHAPTER 4 Creative Madness: The Case of Andrei Siniavskii
- CHAPTER 5 Madness as Mask: The Case of Venedikt Erofeev
- CONCLUSION
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index