Psychotherapy in Hungary During the Socialist Era and the Socialist Dictatorship

Buda, Béla; Tomcsányi, Teodóra; Harmatta, János; Csáky-Pallavicini, Roger; Paneth, Gábor

doi:10.1556/ejmh.4.2009.1.5

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“…It has also certainly been the case that the collapse of Communism enabled an expansion of psychotherapeutic practice, both in terms of the quantity of professionals offering therapy, and the variety of approaches available in private practice (Rose, 1991 ). But this isn’t, of course, to say that the psychotherapeutic professions, and the knowledge they produced, were absent, or did not hold a stake in society under socialism (Buda, Tomcsanyi, Harmatta, Csaky-Pallavicini, & Paneth, 2009 ; Calloway, 1993 ; Doboş, 2015 ; Raikhel & Bemme, 2016 ).…”

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Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

Marks

2018

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

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This article traces what recent research and primary sources tell us about psychotherapy in Communist Europe, and how it survived both underground and above the surface. In particular, I will elaborate on the psychotherapeutic techniques that were popular across the different countries and language cultures of the Soviet sphere, with a particular focus upon the Cold War period. This article examines the literature on the mixed fortunes of psychoanalysis and group therapies in the region. More specifically, it focuses upon the therapeutic modalities such as work therapy, suggestion and rational therapy, which gained particular popularity in the Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The latter two approaches had striking similarities with parallel developments in behavioural and cognitive therapies in the West. In part, this was because clinicians on both sides of the ‘iron curtain’ drew upon shared European traditions from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nevertheless, this article argues that in the Soviet sphere, those promoting these approaches appropriated socialist thought as a source of inspiration and justification, or at the very least, as a convenient political shield.

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Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

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2018

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

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“…During the Communist era, Soviet science was isolated from Western countries, and the scientific discussion of mental health/illness was strongly influenced by Communist ideology (Buda et al 2009). The existence of mental health problems was officially almost denied or described as a remnant of the previous class society (kOrOlenkO & kenSin 2002).…”

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Mental Healthcare Reforms in Post-Soviet Russian Media: Negotiating New Ideas and Values

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2016

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic principles began to enter into different branches of Russian social and health policy. As part of these changes, the country demonstrated an intention to develop a new mental health policy based on approaches consonant with the principles of the World Health Organization. This study analyses how these new policy ideas and values are reflected in the Russian mass media, and in particular whether media discourses build upon those ideas or oppose them. It is based on a qualitative analysis of newspapers from the late Soviet period (1980s) through the transition period (1990s) to the present (2000s). The analysis focuses on (1) the protection of patients' rights, (2) the reorganisation of mental healthcare services and (3) activities preventing stigmatisation. While there was an absence of discussion of mental health problems in Soviet newspapers, the democratic changes of the 1990s triggered the recognition of the existence of mental illness, critiques of Soviet psychiatry and calls for reform. The media response to the new policies was quite ambivalent. Support for patients' rights and the social integration of the mentally ill was accompanied by fear about the detrimental effects of the reforms on public safety. Articles that challenged stigmatisation also contained negative images of mentally ill people. The media were sceptical about the success of the reforms due to the particularities of Russia's socio-economic situation and history.Keywords: media, mental health policy, patients' rights, Post-Soviet transformations, social integration, stigma Reformen im Zusammenhang mit der psychischen Gesundheitsförderung in den postsowjetischen russischen Medien: Diskussion neuer Ideen und Werte: Nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion erschienen langsam die demokratischen Grundsätze in den verschiedenen Bereichen der russischen Sozial-und Gesundheitspolitik. Als Teil dieses Prozesses zeigte das Land seine Absicht, seine Politik in Bezug auf die psychische Gesundheit aufgrund des entsprechenden European Journal of Mental Health 11 (2016) MENTAL HEALTHCARE REFORMS IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN MEDIA EJMH 11:1-2, April 2016Ansatzes der Grundsätze der Weltgesundheitsorganisation zu erneuern. In unserer Studie untersuchen wir, wie diese neuen sozialpolitischen Ideen und Werte in den russischen öffentlichen Medien erschienen, insbesondere hinsichtlich dessen, ob die Diskussionen in den Medien auf diese Ideen bauten oder gegen diese Ideen waren. Die Untersuchung basiert auf der qualitativen Analyse der Pressemitteilungen von drei Zeitabschnitten: der Sowjetzeit (die 80er-Jahre), der Übergangszeit (die 90er-Jahre) und der Zeit bis zur Gegenwart (nach dem Jahr 2000). Die Analyse fokussiert sich auf den (1) Schutz der Rechte der Patienten, (2) die Reorganisation der Einrichtungen der psychischen Gesundheitsförderung und (3) die Aktivität gegen Stigmatisierung. Wäh-rend in den Zeitungen der Sowjetzeit die Probleme im Zusammenhang mit der psychischen Gesundheit noch fehlten, wurde durch ...

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“…Similar trajectories have been noted elsewhere, including the adoption of group psychotherapies in Spain (Mir, 2011). Mat Savelli’s article bolsters the literature that shows the legacies of psychoanalysis in the Communist East as an underground practice, which also quietly informed new developments in psychotherapy that were used in more mainstream, state-sponsored settings (Antić, 2017; Buda et al ., 2009; Leuenberger, 2001; Marks, 2015; Savelli, 2013). Savelli argues that the focus on group approaches was not due to ideological pressure in favour of privileging social collectivity, but was largely a result of clinicians’ familiarity with the practices of Bion and Foulkes from their training abroad.…”

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“…If we unpick the networks at play in shaping therapeutic practice, and look at simultaneous trends in other parts of Europe and elsewhere, we can better ascertain the interaction between the local and the global. This is especially key for Eastern Europe where there were idiosyncratic developments in particular localities, but where intellectual and clinical communities were not hermetically sealed from the wider world (Aleksandrowicz, 2009; Buda et al ., 2009; Marks, 2015; Matza, 2018; Raikhel and Bemme, 2016). Continuities, and actual personal connections, across East and West were sometimes more pronounced than might appear at first glance.…”

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Psychotherapy in Europe

Marks

2018

History of the Human Sciences

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Psychotherapy was an invention of European modernity, but as the 20th century unfolded, and we trace how it crossed national and continental borders, its goals and the particular techniques by which it operated become harder to pin down. This introduction briefly draws together the historical literature on psychotherapy in Europe, asking comparative questions about the role of location and culture, and networks of transmission and transformation. It introduces the six articles in this special issue on Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Russia, Britain and Sweden as well as its parallel special issue of History of Psychology on ‘Psychotherapy in the Americas’. It traces what these articles tell us about how therapeutic developments were entangled with the dramatic, and often traumatic, political events across the continent: in the wake of the Second World War, the emergence of Communist and authoritarian regimes, the establishment of welfare states and the advance of neoliberalism.

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Psychotherapy in Hungary During the Socialist Era and the Socialist Dictatorship

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Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

Mental Healthcare Reforms in Post-Soviet Russian Media: Negotiating New Ideas and Values

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