Cold War in Psychiatry: Human Factors, Secret Actors - Couverture souple

Van, Voren Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042030488 ISBN 13 : 9789042030480

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2010

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert van Voren (1959), a Sovietologist by education, has been a human rights activist since 1977 with a special interest in mental health issues. He is Chief Executive of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) and has written extensively on Soviet issues and, in particular, issues related to mental health and human rights, and published a dozen books. His memoirs, On Dissidents and Madness, were published by Rodopi in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042030488
• ISBN 13: 9789042030480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 532
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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