Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

Marks, Sarah

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“…To je proces koji je usredsređen na lečenje mentalnih bolesti i stanja koja pojedincima predstavljaju poteškoću u normalnom funkcionisanju. Ona definitivno nije nov fenomen i praktikovala se i u doba socijalizma, ali su njeni osnovni postulati bili prilagođeni ideološkoj klimi tog vremena (Savelli 2013;Marks & Savelli 2015;Marks 2018). Takođe, psihoterapija je geografski široko rasprostranjena praksa sa svojim lokalnim kulturnim specifičnostima i varijacijama (Dwairy & Van Sickle 1996;Iwakabe 2008;Nwoye 2010;Madu 2015).…”

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“…Na koji način se ovakva terapijska praksa razlikuje od one koja je bila praktikovana u vreme socijalizma? Pre svega, terapijska praksa u vreme socijalizma je bila uglavnom fokusirana na grupne i radne terapije (Marks & Savelli 2015;Marks 2018). Ako je rad u vreme socijalizma bio neizostavan deo svake terapije, ovde je on opcionalan i u potpunosti zavisi od volje samog klijenta da li će se odlučiti za neku vrstu socijalnih i radnih aktivnosti, budući da terapeuti nisu saglasni s tim da klijentima treba davati praktične savete kako da prevaziđu svoje tegobe.…”

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The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

Vukomanović¹

2020

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The processes of neoliberalization and European integration in Serbia have been underway for some time, and in addition to their effect on certain elements of the social structure such as the family, the economy, political life etc., their impact is also evident in the way that Serbian citizens perceive themselves and their position in this environment. Due to reduced social protection, the withdrawal of the state from the public sphere, and increasing financial and employment insecurity, individuals are obliged to assume responsibility for their lives and to engage in self-improvement with the aim of personal development and the finding of new survival strategies. Through interviews with psychotherapists and persons who have used the services of private psychotherapy, this paper looks at the relationship between private psychotherapeutic practice in Belgrade as a technique for self-improvement and the construction of the self in its clients, and then relates it to the broader socio-economic context in which the respondents live and work. The findings suggest that with regard to its clients, private psychotherapeutic practice mirrors the emphasis on independence, autonomy and responsibility for one's life and life decisions, which are typical features of the entrepreneurial self characteristic of the period of post-socialist neoliberalization.

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The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

Vukomanović¹

2020

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“…This paper tells the story of Soviet psychotherapists' post-war efforts to improve the status of their discipline and to establish it as a standard treatment within the Soviet healthcare system. The theory and practice of psychotherapy in the post-war Soviet Union has largely been absent from English-language scholarship, with the exception of several contemporaneous accounts by western therapists who visited the country [6][7][8] and mentions in a few studies by contemporary scholars [9][10][11][12]. This paper aims to draw attention to the fact that psychotherapy was not only present in the post-war Soviet Union but was actually growing in popularity and prominence.…”

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Creating a medical speciality: psychotherapy in the post-war Soviet healthcare system

Brokman¹

2019

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The postwar period saw renewed growth of psychotherapy as a discipline in the Soviet Union. More physicians were trained in its methods, its enthusiasts became more vocal, and the treatment was gradually introduced into the practice of more and more medical institutions throughout the country. This process culminated in 1985, when psychotherapy was finally added to the list of medical specialities, gaining the official recognition sought by its practitioners. This paper explores the efforts to popularise psychotherapy in the postwar USSR and to establish it as a new medical speciality in the Soviet healthcare system. It argues that, in contrast to their colleagues in the United States, Soviet psychotherapists did not seek to establish their discipline as a distinct profession but as a branch of medicine. For this purpose, they paid a lot of attention to physiological mechanisms of psychotherapy, attempting to present it as just another medical procedure and to free it from associations with mysticism or unscientific notions ascribed to psychotherapies practised in North America and Western Europe, particularly to psychoanalysis. These efforts were largely successful; however, the improved status was not enough to establish psychotherapy as a standard treatment in Soviet medical institutions. Its growth was hindered by the shortages of resources and personnel in the Soviet healthcare system, which could not afford a large investment in psychotherapeutic care. Consequently, the availability of psychotherapy remained limited even as the discipline gained status within the medical community and the support of the healthcare authorities.

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“…While these accounts provide an overview of the methods and theoretical positions of Soviet psychotherapy at particular moments, they lack historical analysis of its various forms, development and context. This can be found in several publications by contemporary scholars (Marks, 2018; Michaels, 2014; Sirotkina, 2002; Sirotkina and Kokorina, 2015), however, these works are still few in number and consequently leave many aspects of Soviet psychotherapy unexplored.…”

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Sterility and suggestion: Minor psychotherapy in the Soviet Union, 1956–1985

Brokman

2018

History of the Human Sciences

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This article explores the concept of minor or general psychotherapy championed by physicians seeking to popularise psychotherapy in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. Understood as a set of skills and principles meant to guide behaviour towards and around patients, this form of psychotherapy was portrayed as indispensable for physicians of all specialities as well as for all personnel of medical institutions. This article shows how, as a result of Soviet teaching on the power of suggestion to influence human organisms, every interaction with patients was conceptualised as a form of psychotherapy, leading to the embrace of placebo as a legitimate form of therapy, and to the blurring of the boundary between therapy and other activities in the clinic. The principles of minor psychotherapy reveal a concept of psychotherapy that is much wider, and rooted in different priorities, than the dominant understanding of this type of treatment found in Western Europe and North America. This article addresses the ethical principles implicit in the Soviet perspective, demonstrating that despite fighting against the uncaring and dismissive attitude of other physicians, Soviet psychotherapists remained rooted in the paternalistic tradition. Finally, it traces the efforts to establish minor psychotherapy as standard practice in medical institutions, which, like many other plans and ambitions of Soviet psychotherapists, were constrained by a lack of resources in the healthcare system.

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Suggestion, persuasion and work: Psychotherapies in communist Europe

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

The Construction of the Neoliberal Self in Belgrade Psychotherapeutic Practice

Creating a medical speciality: psychotherapy in the post-war Soviet healthcare system

Sterility and suggestion: Minor psychotherapy in the Soviet Union, 1956–1985

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