{"product_id":"diagnosing-literary-genius-9780801867828","title":"Diagnosing Literary Genius","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrina Sirotkina gives a fascinating account of the growth of psychiatry in Russia through the prism of literature. -- Anne Garside Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease [Sirotkina] has a deep interest in her subject, and she offers a mine of information and commentary about the linked histories of psychiatry and literature in Russia (and in the post-1917 Russian emigre community). The results of her archival research are most rewarding for anyone interested in the history of Russian psychiatry. -- Daniel Rancour-Laferriere Times Literary Supplement In this absorbing work of exemplary scholarship, Irina Sirotkina... convincingly correlates trends in the theory and practice of Russian psychotherapy, during the fifty-year period studied, with changing developments in sociopolitical thought. -- Martin Bidney Slavic Review A worthy and cleverly constructed attempt to redress the excesses of casting psychiatry as a self-interested body. -- Ben Mayhew Medical History 2004 A valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of Russian psychiatry. -- Laura Goering Journal of the History of Medicine 2004 An interesting and respectable history of a critical time in Russia's history. -- Cary Federman European Legacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:    Preface  On Transliteration and Spelling    Introduction  1 Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry  2 Dostoevsky: From Epilepsy to Progeneration  3 Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia  4 Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health  5 The Institute of Genius: Psychiatry in the Early Soviet Years    Notes   Bibliography  Index","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527615586647,"sku":"9780801867828","price":45.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801867828.jpg?v=1731868554","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diagnosing-literary-genius-9780801867828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}