CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Shyrokova, Iryna Valeriivna |
|---|---|
| Title | DEBATES WITHIN THE WESTERN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY ON REPRESSIVE PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICES IN THE USSR FROM THE 1960s TO THE 1980s |
| Summary | This thesis concentrates on debates within the Western psychiatric community on the abuse of psychiatry in the USSR, in order to show how the opinion of a distinct subset of the Western public was shaped not only by the conditions of the Cold War, but also by their professional engagement and the desire to influence their Soviet colleagues to put an end to these abuses. Chronological scope of the problem takes 1960s-80s. The World Congresses of Psychiatry became one of main stage for debates and official one. The main focuses for Western psychiatrists were the questions of the violence of professional ethics by Soviet colleagues, sociocultural and political environment in the USSR as the ground for creating Soviet type of psychiatrist, and the system of diagnosis on mental diseases that was applying to Soviet dissent. At the same time, the Western psychiatric activities in the form of appeals and various campaigns to free dissenters in the USSR are under discussing too. |
| Supervisor | Hall Karl |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/shyrokova_iryna.pdf |
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