Diseased, Depraved or just Drunk? The Psychiatric Panic over Alcoholism in Communist Yugoslavia

Savelli, Mat

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“…What is fascinating, however, is that Yugoslav theorists did not simply retreat into the realm of the family as the locus of mental illness, despite the deep imprint of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories (Savelli, 2012;Antic, 2016). Rather, a powerful current that ran through Yugoslav mental health care implicated society more broadly as both the genesis and potential solution to mental health problems.…”

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“…Crucially, however, they did not explicitly ground their arguments in ideology. Rather, they linked their own work to research associated with the international social psychiatry movement, through figures like Joshua Bierer, as well as to better known UKbased practitioners, such as Aubrey Lewis and Maxwell Jones (Savelli, 2012). And although many within the social psychiatry movement might have identified with left-wing politics, few would have been understood as socialists in the context of Tito's Yugoslavia.…”

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Beyond ideological platitudes: socialism and psychiatry in Eastern Europe

Savelli

2018

Palgrave Commun

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For both contemporaneous commentators and historians, psychiatry within what was Communist Europe has largely been discussed through the prism of politics and ideology. Recently, scholars have begun to debate the extent to which psychiatric practices within post-WWII Eastern Europe were beholden to the ideological aspirations of the political elite. This paper enters into these debates by suggesting the need for more nuance in how historians analyse the relationship between ideology and psychiatry in this context. Specifically, it argues that there is a need to differentiate between psychiatric practices that were socialist by design-where professional knowledge was theoretically guided by ideological considerations-and those that were socialist by default-where practices were shaped by the socialist context without being meaningfully inspired by ideology. In order to demonstrate these distinctions, this paper reflects upon psychiatric developments within Communist Yugoslavia (1945-1991). By drawing a clearer distinction between "socialist by design" and "socialism by default", it becomes easier to reconnect Eastern Europe to the broader historiography of twentieth century psychiatry, while simultaneously providing new insights into the experience of state-sponsored Communism.

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Section: Socialist By Designmentioning

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Beyond ideological platitudes: socialism and psychiatry in Eastern Europe

Savelli

2018

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“…From the perspective of these Yugoslav practitioners, grounded in both social psychiatry and the precepts of group analysis, mainstream psychiatry did itself a disservice by overemphasizing the individual as the locus of study and treatment. Human beings were, in their view, inherently interconnected in systems ranging from the family to the workplace to society more broadly (Savelli, 2011). If the raison d’être for mental health treatment was to equip a person for a return to society, group therapy was surely better preparation than a single spot on a therapist’s couch.…”

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

Savelli

2018

History of the Human Sciences

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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 psychotherapeutic techniques and theory entered into clinical practice. Despite their excellent work uncovering these hitherto neglected histories, however, historians of the psy-disciplines in Eastern Europe (and indeed other parts of the world) have neglected to fully consider the ways that post-World War II psychotherapeutic developments were not simply continuations of pre-war psychoanalytic traditions, but rather products of emerging transnational networks and knowledge exchanges in the post-war period. This article highlights how psychotherapy became a leading form of treatment within Communist Yugoslavia. Inspired by theorists in France and the United Kingdom, among other places, Yugoslav practitioners became well versed in a number of psychotherapeutic techniques, especially ‘brief psychotherapy’ and group-based treatment. These developments were not accidents of ideology, whereby group psychotherapy might be accepted by authorities as a nod to some idea of ‘the collective’, but were rather products of economic limitations and strong links with international networks of practitioners, especially in the domains of social psychiatry and group analysis. The Yugoslav example underscores the need for more historical attention to transnational connections among psychotherapists and within the psy-disciplines more broadly.

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“…. 심장병, 비만, 치매, 당뇨, 피로 등 의 만성질환에 대한 연구도 다수 등장했다 (Timmermann, 2012;Parr, 2014;Tuchman, 2015;Rasmussen, 2018;Blayney, 2019;Fallon, 2019 (Gentilcore, 2016;Savelli, 2012;Chavigny, 2014;Black, 2017;Mills and Adderley, 2017;Herzberg, 2017;Edman, 2020;Karibo, 2020 (Martyr, 2011;Mauger, 2012;Loughran, 2012;Wright, Jacklin, Themeles, 2013;Slijkhuis and Oosterhuis, 2014;Cox and Marland, 2015;Blair, 2016;Parhi and Pietikainen, 2017;Millard, 2017;Cox and Marland, 2018;Adams, 2019;Wake, 2019;Ramos, 2019;Nuriddin, 2019;Dwyer, 2019;Schöhl and Hess, 2019;Marland, 2019;Tomes and Jones, 2019;Tomes, 2020 했다(Bavins, Marland, and Tomes, 2016;Van Andel, 2016;Cavallo, 2016;Baschin, 2016;Jones, 2016; (Newton, 2011;Lloyd, 2012;Geist, 2012;Carstirs, 2014;…”

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A Historiographical Review of the History of Western Medicine, 2011–2020 The Diversification of Subject Matter and the Search for a New Methodology

Lee

2020

Korean J Med Hist

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In recent decades, the history of medicine has seen additional experimentation with the changing understanding of the relationship between medicine and society, especially with the emergence of a knowledge-and information-based society and globalization. Furthermore, historians have attempted to establish the value of the history of medicine in response to changing perceptions of medicine and history in the twenty-first century. Their efforts have vitalized the field of medical history by treating it as a useful lens for observing medicine's past as well as formulating critical questions about its present.

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Diseased, Depraved or just Drunk? The Psychiatric Panic over Alcoholism in Communist Yugoslavia

Cited by 6 publications

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Beyond ideological platitudes: socialism and psychiatry in Eastern Europe

Beyond ideological platitudes: socialism and psychiatry in Eastern Europe

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

A Historiographical Review of the History of Western Medicine, 2011–2020 The Diversification of Subject Matter and the Search for a New Methodology

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