Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors / / Robert van Voren.

• Superior document: On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics ; 23
• Author: Voren, Robert van.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: On the boundary of two worlds ; 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (519 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of 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.