Power in psychiatry

• Verfasst von: Schacht, Anastassiya [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Power in psychiatry
• Titelzusatz: Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry
• Verf.angabe: Anastassiya Schacht
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: March 2022
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Online veröffentlicht: 1. Oktober 2021 ; Gesehen am 21.10.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: History of psychiatry
• Ort Quelle: London [u.a.] : Sage, 1990
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 33(2022), 1 vom: März, Seite 21-33
• ISSN Quelle: 1740-2360
• DOI: doi:10.1177/0957154X211047805
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1906298920

Abstract

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.