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MENTAL HEALTH IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Non-Aligned Psychiatry
in the Cold War
Revolution, Emancipation and
Re-Imagining the Human Psyche
Ana Antić
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Non-Aligned
Psychiatry in the Cold
War
Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining
the Human Psyche
Ana Antić
Department of History
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Acknowledgments
The idea for this book started many years ago, when I was a postdoc-
toral fellow in the history department at Birkbeck, University of London,
where I met a wonderful group of colleagues and friends. Dora Vargha,
Johanna Conterio, David Brydan, Marcie Holmes, Louise Hyde, Joanna
Bourke have been a wonderful support network and provided kind and
constructive criticism, brainstorming sessions and much more as I was
trying to make sense of my new archival material. Special thanks go
to Daniel Pick, whose unwavering support and friendship have been
exceptionally important. My understanding of the field has benefited
enormously from our many conversations about psychoanalysis, the Cold
War and European history, and from his and Jacqueline Rose’s delightful
and challenging History and Psychoanalysis reading group.
At the University of Exeter, a lot of colleagues were extremely patient
and generous, offering to read my drafts and discuss my semi-developed
arguments and ideas. Martin Thomas, James Mark, Stacey Hynd, Nandini
Chatterjee and many others in the Centre for Global and Imperial History
worked hard to ensure a dynamic research culture, organising a series of
seminars and informal discussions which shaped my thinking, and chal-
lenged me to reframe my own contributions to the field of global history.
This was also a great place to work in medical humanities, and I’m very
grateful to Rebecca Williams, Kate Fisher and the Centre for Medical
history for their kindness and support.
v
vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Introduction 1
2 Primitivism, Modernity and Revolution
in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Psychiatry 15
3 Psychotherapy as Revolutionary Praxis 53
4 Authoritarian Psychiatry 99
5 Global Imaginations and Non-alignment: Waging War
Against Backwardness 155
6 ‘Psy’ Sciences Beyond the Consulting Room 199
7 Epilogue: War Trauma and the Breakup of Yugoslavia 243
8 Conclusion 293
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Cold War Europe, describing how the human mind and its potentials
and pathologies were re-imagined and debated in this complex and tense
political context. Furthermore, the book contributes to the growing liter-
ature on socialist globalisation and exchanges between the Second and
Third Worlds, emphasising the role and participation of Eastern Europe
and its ‘psy’ experts in debates about decolonisation, political and psychi-
atric universalism, and the ‘global psyche’. Finally, it demonstrates that
Yugoslav socialist ‘psy’ sciences were not ‘hostages of the state’ nor
producing knowledge and expertise on the communist state’s demand.
They were themselves constitutive of the socialist experience and ideology,
took an active part in broader discussions of socialism’s shortcomings and
achievements, and provided patients, artists and social scientists with the
language and conceptual equipment for working out what the Yugoslav
version of Marxism might mean in different social and cultural spheres.
In the recent years, the field of the history and sociology of commu-
nist psychiatry has seen significant growth, and scholars have successfully
begun to revise the image of communist psychiatry as static, mono-
lithic and entirely subordinated to the whims of dictatorial political
regimes.1 Indeed, in the Eastern bloc the ‘psy’ disciplines eventually
developed in a variety of different directions. While socialist governments
did consider certain schools of thought or therapeutic frameworks polit-
ically less appropriate, following the 1950s Eastern Europe’s—including
Soviet—‘psy’ sciences were characterised by a notable diversity of clinical
approaches and practices.2 Moreover, communist psychiatric professionals
1 Sarah Marks and Mattjew Savelli, eds, Psychiatry in Communist Europe, London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; Greg Eghigian, ‘Was There a Communist Psychiatry? Politics
and East German Psychiatric Care, 1945–1989’, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2002,
10:6, 364–368; Benjamin Zajicek, Scientific Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union: The Politics
of Modern Medicine and the Struggle to Define ‘Pavlovian’ Psychiatry, 1939–1953, PhD
dissertation, University of Chicago, 2009; Christine Leuenberger, ‘Socialist Psychotherapy
and Its Dissidents’, Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 2001, 37:3; Hannah
Proctor, Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s ‘Romantic Science’ and Soviet Social
History, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
2 R. J. Decarvalho and Ivo Cermak, ‘History of Humanistic Psychology in Czechoslo-
vakia’, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1997, 37:1, 110–130; S. Hoskovcová, J.
Hoskovec, A. Plháková, M. Sebek, J. Svancara, and D. Voboril, ‘Historiography of Czech
Psychology’, History of Psychology, 2010, 13:3, 309–334; B. Buda, T. Tomcsanyi, J.
Harmatta, R. Csaky-Pallavicini and G. Paneth, ‘Psychotherapy in Hungary During the
Socialist Era and the Socialist Dictatorship’, European Journal of Mental Health, 2009,
4:1, 67–99; Alberto Angelini, ‘History of the Unconscious in Soviet Russia: From Its
1 INTRODUCTION 3
and practitioners were not isolated from the rest of the world: they
remained relatively open to Western influences, and maintained relation-
ships with colleagues from outside the socialist bloc.3
In their edited volume on psychiatry in socialist Eastern Europe, Sarah
Marks and Matthew Savelli draw attention to this complex and dynamic
nature of the ‘psy’ disciplines across the region, and to their multifaceted
political outlook and purposes.4 This book proceeds in a similar vein,
and presents Yugoslav psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as
vigorous, thoroughly internationalised and often professionally progres-
sive.5 In her ground-breaking book on Czechoslovak socialist sexology,
Liskova argues that sexology experts were far from enslaved by the author-
itarian state, and that their profession was robust and influential enough
to directly affect the state’s politics and management of sexuality and
family life, while their concepts and ideas were reflected in social and indi-
vidual behaviour more generally. In the Yugoslav case, from the 1950s on
psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic concepts and language
spread beyond the consulting room, and informed a variety of political
and cultural discourses. Just like in the case of Czechoslovak sexologists,
Yugoslav ‘psy’ experts’ relationship to power was complex and varied—it
was, at different times, tactical, loyal, critical, subordinated—but this was
by no means a marginalised, irrelevant or politically subjugated profes-
sion. Until the devastating wars of Yugoslav succession, Yugoslav ‘psy’
disciplines were not only exceptionally quick to adopt Western theories
and therapeutic techniques; they were genuinely experimental and inno-
vative in a broader European and global context, and pioneered both
clinical practices and interpretive frameworks.
However, recent scholarship on communist psychiatry has also tended
to emphasise its similarity with Western mental health sciences, rightly
Origins to the Fall of the Soviet Union’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2008,
89:2, 369–388.
3 Greg Eghigian, ‘Care and Control in a Communist State: The Place of Politics in East
German Psychiatry’, in Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra et al., ed., Psychiatric Cultures Compared:
Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twen-tieth Century, Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press, 2005, 183–199.
4 Savelli and Marks, Psychiatry in Communist Europe.
5 Here, the argument is not dissimilar from Katerina Liskova’s analysis of sexologists
in socialist Czechoslovakia: Katerina Liskova, Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2018.
4 A. ANTIĆ
Jennifer Lambe and others have explored the exceptionally close relation-
ship that developed between psychoanalysis and politics in the aftermath
of the Second World War, arguing that, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s,
the discipline became much more than a clinical or therapeutic tech-
nique. Leading psychoanalysts from Germany, Western Europe, United
States, Latin America engaged with a variety of broader social, religious
and political issues, so that psychoanalysis evolved into a conceptual
instrument for cultural and political criticism, and provided inspiration
for radical and progressive interventions in a series of non-medical and
non-psychiatric fields.7 Moreover, in different parts of the world, psycho-
analysis and psychoanalysts often styled themselves as natural allies of
revolutionary political activism, developing conceptual tools and analytic
frameworks for discussing and practicing radical politics.
Eastern Europe has so far remained cut off from these histori-
ographical discussions, perhaps because of the longstanding assump-
tion that the discipline of psychoanalysis was politically suppressed and
marginalised in this region. But socialist psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
in Yugoslavia played an exceptionally important role in both medical and
political discussions about the nature of Marxist praxis and workers’ self-
management. This book explores the fascinating and complex relationship
between Yugoslav psychoanalysis (and other ‘psy’ disciplines) and broader
socio-political, cultural and intellectual fields. The coming chapters will
demonstrate that it was in a small socialist East European country that
some of the most radical ideas regarding an activist psychoanalysis devel-
oped as early as the late 1950s, well before comparable developments
ensued in Western Europe, for instance. Moreover, Yugoslav psychoana-
lysts styled themselves not only as perceptive social critics and politically
subversive intellectuals, but also as direct revolutionaries in their everyday
clinical practice. Even though they participated in broader social and
political discussions, their primary field of political action and involvement
was the consulting room, in which they proposed to directly trans-
form archaic social relations and promote self-management by undoing
traditional Yugoslav patriarchal and authoritarian families.
11 Matthew Heaton, Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and
the Globalization of Psychiatry, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013; Yolana Pringle, Psychi-
atry and Decolonisation in Uganda, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019; Jonathan
Sadowsky, Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial South West Nigeria,
University of California Press, 1999.
12 Alice Bullard, ‘Imperial Networks and Postcolonial Independence: The Transition
from Colonial to Transcultural Psychiatry’, in S. Malone and M. Vaughan, eds, Psychiatry
and Empire, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
1 INTRODUCTION 9
13 See James Mark, Artemy Kalinovsky, and Steffanie Marung, eds, Alternative Glob-
alizations. Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World, Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2020; Maxim Matusevich, No Easy Row for a Russian Hoe: Ideology and Pragma-
tism in Nigerian-Soviet Relations, 1960–1991, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003;
Matusevich, ‘Probing the Limits of Internationalism: African Students Confront Soviet
Ritual’, Anthropology of East Europe Review, 2009, 27:2, 19–39; Quinn Slobodian, ed.,
Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World, New York: Berghahn Books,
2015; Benjamin Tromly, ‘Brother or Other? East European Students in Soviet Higher
Education Establishments’, 1948–1956, European History Quarterly, 2014, 44:1, 80–
102; Lukasz Stanek, ‘Architects from Socialist Countries in Ghana (1957–1967): Modern
Architecture and Mondialisation’, Society of Architectural Historians’ Journal, 2015, 74:4,
416–442; James Mark and Peter Apor, ‘Socialism Goes Global: Decolonization and the
Making of a New Culture of Internationalism in Socialist Hungary 1956–1989’, Journal
of Modern History, 2015, 87, 852–891.
14 See, for instance, Dora Vargha, ‘Technical Assistance and Socialist International
Health: Hungary, the WHO and the Korean War’, History and Technology, 2020, 36:3–4.
15 Nataša Mišković, Harald Fischer-Tiné and Nada Boškovska Leimgruber, eds, The
Non Aligned Movement and the Cold War: Delhi, Bandung, Belgrade, Routledge, 2014;
Tvrtko Jakovina, Treća strana hladnog rata [The Third Side of the Cold War], Zagreb:
Fraktura, 2011.
10 A. ANTIĆ
16 Yale Richmond, Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain,
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State Unviersity Press, 2003; Sune Bechmann Pedersen and
Christian Noack, eds, Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist
Experiences Across the Iron Curtain, London and New York: Routledge, 2020; Niko-
laos Papadogiannis, ‘Political Travel Across the ‘Iron Curtain’ and Communist Youth
Identities in West Germany and Greece in the 1970s and 1980s’, European Review of
History, 2016, 26:3, 526–553.
17 Radina Vucetic, Coca-Cola Socialism: Americanization of the Yugoslav Culture in the
Sixties, Budapest: CEU Press, 2018.
1 INTRODUCTION 11
19 See Heike Karge, Der Charme der Schizophrenie. Psychiatrie, Krieg und Gesellschaft
im serbokroatischen Raum, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
20 See, for comparison, Richard Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North
Africa, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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