Power in psychiatry: Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry
Soviet political abuse of psychiatry in the Brezhnevite era offers a rich case study of entanglement between various layers, impact spaces, and actors of power. This article discusses two types of discursive power in Soviet psychiatry. One sprang from the madness-affirmative cultural canon, in which...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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March 2022
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History of psychiatry
Year: 2022, Jahrgang: 33, Heft: 1, Pages: 21-33 |
| ISSN: | 1740-2360 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0957154X211047805 |
| Online-Zugang: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211047805 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957154X211047805 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Anastassiya Schacht |
| Zusammenfassung: | Soviet political abuse of psychiatry in the Brezhnevite era offers a rich case study of entanglement between various layers, impact spaces, and actors of power. This article discusses two types of discursive power in Soviet psychiatry. One sprang from the madness-affirmative cultural canon, in which dissidents sought their self-legitimation. More prominently, there was the power of psychiatrists within their own hierarchic system. I analyse how the action scopes for psychiatric power varied, depending on whether the recipient was a patient or fellow professional. Here, the inherent hierarchy structured and regulated the peer community and secured the stability of medical practices - and of the political entanglement of these practices and actors with the state-owned places of power. |
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| Beschreibung: | Online veröffentlicht: 1. Oktober 2021 Gesehen am 21.10.2024 |
| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1740-2360 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0957154X211047805 |