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‘Peace and happiness await us’: Psychotherapy in Yugoslavia, 1945–85

Abstract

Previous accounts of psychiatry within Communist Europe have emphasized the dominance of biological approaches to mental health treatment. Psychotherapy was thus framed as a taboo or marginal component of East European psychiatric care. In more recent years, this interpretation has been re-examined as historians are beginning to delve deeper into the diversity of mental healthcare within the Communist world, noting many instances in which …

Authors

Savelli M

Journal

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 38–57

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

October 2018

DOI

10.1177/0952695118773951

ISSN

0952-6951