Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War: Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining the Human Psyche

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Ana Antić

Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War

Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining the Human Psyche

Ana Antić

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
20 January 2023

Social & cultural history; The Cold War; Political oppression & persecution; History of medicine; Psychiatry

Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective

This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing Yugoslav ‘psy’ sciences as they experienced multiple internationalisations and globalisations in the post-WWII period. These unique transnational connections – with West, East and South – remain at the centre of this book. The author argues that the ‘psy’ disciplines provide a window onto the complications of Cold War internationalism, offering an opportunity to re-think postwar Europe's internal dynamics. She tells an alternative, pan-European narrative of the post-1945 period, demonstrating that, in the Cold War, there existed sites of collaboration and vigorous exchange between the two ideologically opposed camps, and places like Yugoslavia provided a meeting point, where ideas, frameworks and professional and cultural networks from both sides of the Iron Curtain could overlap and transform each other. Moreover, the book offers the first analysis of East European psychiatrists’ contacts with and contributions to the decolonizing world, exploring their participation in broader political discussions about decolonization, anti-imperialism and non-alignment.

The Yugoslav brand of East-West psychoanalysis and psychotherapy bred a truly unique intellectual framework, which enabled psychiatrists to think through a set of political and ideological dilemmas regarding the relationship between individuals and social structures. This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of the notion of ‘communist psychiatry’ as a tool used solely for political oppression, and instead emphasises the political interventions of East European psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

This monograph has partly been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Starting Grant DECOLMAD 851871).

By: Ana Antić
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2021 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 447g
ISBN: 9783030894511
ISBN 10: 3030894517
Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Pages: 331
Publication Date: 20 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ana Antić is a Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She is a social and cultural historian whose research focuses on the history of modern Europe and the Balkans, the history of war and violence, and the history of psychiatry.