Anastassiya Schacht, BA MA


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Institut für Geschichte
Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1
1010 Wien

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Publikationen

Power in Psychiatry

Autor(en)
Anastassiya Schacht
Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geschichte
Journal
History of Psychiatry
Seiten
21-33
Anzahl der Seiten
13
ISSN
0957-154X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211047805
Publikationsdatum
10-2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
601022 Zeitgeschichte
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Psychiatry and Mental health
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ad32690f-bd8e-44fe-8dfa-eacd9ffd7517

Vorträge & Aktivitäten

Power in Psychiatry

Autor(en)
Anastassiya Schacht
Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geschichte
Journal
History of Psychiatry
Seiten
21-33
Anzahl der Seiten
13
ISSN
0957-154X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211047805
Publikationsdatum
10-2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
601022 Zeitgeschichte
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Psychiatry and Mental health
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ad32690f-bd8e-44fe-8dfa-eacd9ffd7517