
Cold War in Psychiatry : Human Factors, Secret Actor.
Title:
Cold War in Psychiatry : Human Factors, Secret Actor.
ISBN:
9789042030473
Physical Description:
1 online resource (519 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Odyssey -- Part 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1: Meeting Mel Sabshin -- Chapter 2: Melvin Sabshin's Roots -- Pogroms -- Jews and socialism -- Slonim -- Chapter 3: From Russia to the Statue of Liberty -- The Promised City -- Life in America -- Chapter 4: Meeting Jochen Neumann -- A principled man -- Chapter 5: Growing up in Post-War Germany -- End of childhood -- Uncertain times -- Chapter 6: Shaken Foundations -- Arrest -- Bautzen -- Mühlberg -- Chapter 7: Political Turmoil at Tulane University -- Charity hospital -- Anti-Communism on the rise -- First FBI surveillance -- The case of Robert Hodes -- Chapter 8: The Formation of a Communist -- Joining the communist movement -- University -- Part 2: The Curtain Opens -- Chapter 9: Origins of Soviet Political Psychiatry -- Andrei Snezhnevsky -- Ridicule -- Who knew, who understood? -- Early cases of political psychiatry -- Keeping up appearances -- Chapter 10: Meeting Ellen Mercer -- Chapter 11: The Shield and Sword of the Party -- The Stasi -- Who worked for the Stasi and why? -- Recruitment -- The Stasi and the medical community -- Chapter 12: Opposition at Home and Abroad -- The international community becomes involved -- Opposition at home -- Opposition abroad -- Chapter 13: A Secret Actor -- Infiltration -- Liquidation -- Pity -- Chapter 14: The End of the Working Commission -- Part 3: Act One -- Chapter 15: The WPA Becomes Involved 1977-1983 -- The FBI is back -- Global forum -- The Honolulu Congress -- The final confrontation -- Chapter 16: The Soviets Leave the WPA -- World Congress in Vienna -- Hungarian rebellion -- Chapter 17: Another Hidden Factor -- Success in Rome -- Mixed reactions at home -- Chapter 18: Meeting Costas Stefanis -- Chapter 19: Soviet Actors -- Dark mournful eyes.
Faithful Party psychiatrist -- Chapter 20: Secret Negotiations? -- Tension -- Koryagin's Honorary Membership -- "Clandestine negotiations" -- Meeting Stefanis again -- Chapter 21: A Professional Career with Political Hurdles -- Provocateur -- Unacceptable behavior -- Chapter 22: Reporting for the DDR Leadership -- First Stasi contacts -- Subjective yet fascinating -- Stasi files -- Part 4: Act Two -- Chapter 23: Power Struggle in Moscow -- Chapter 24: Political Changes at Home -- Release of political prisoners -- Soviet press -- Chapter 25: Irritation, Admiration and Disenchantment -- From admiration to friendship -- Disenchantment -- Chapter 26: Psychiatric Abuse and East-West Politics -- Koryagin on the scene -- Regional Symposium in Washington -- Chapter 27: The US Visit to the USSR -- The campaign intensifies -- Meeting Shevardnadze -- High-level political involvement -- Negotiations -- Obstruction -- Chapter 28: Granada -- Ad-hoc membership for the Soviets -- Independent Psychiatric Association -- Part 5: The Final Act -- Chapter 29: Athens -- The Gluzman approach -- The first clash -- The debate -- Negotiations with Moscow -- The Soviets re-enter -- Part 6: The Curtains Close -- Chapter 30: Aftermath -- Diversion -- Power struggle continues -- One more assessment -- Alternatives -- Chapter 31: Siegerjustiz and its consequences -- Chapter 32: Victors and Losers -- Loneliness -- Part 7: Conclusion -- Lessons Learned. Any Lessons Learned? -- Post Scriptum -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Abstract:
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 other.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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