Psychiatry and Psychology in the USSR

Author:   Samuel Corson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976
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9781461343004


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   12 December 2012
Format:   Paperback
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This book is aimed at a professional audience of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators, as well as Slavic studies scholars and teachers and intelligent lay readers. It would be presumptious to attempt to cover the entire field of Soviet psychiatry and psychology in one modest volume. During the past several decades there has been a remarkable flourishing and diversification of research in psychology and psychiatry in the USSR. What we have attempted to do in this symposium is to present a constructive critical overview of certain limited areas by arranging an interchange of observations and ideas between several American scientists knowledgeable in these fields and a psychologist and psychiatrist who obtained their education and working experience in the USSR. We hope to be able to expand such symposia in the future, so as to cover other important areas of these disciplines. This monograph presents an eyewitness account of Pavlov by W. Horsley Gantt, one of three surviving students of Pavlov, and, to the best of my knowledge, the only American who actually studied and worked with Pavlov. It is a measure of Dr. Gantt's devotion to the development of scientific psychiatry that he went to the USSR to spend six years in Pavlov's laboratory at a time of extreme economic hardship and political turmoil in that country and in the face of having to master a difficult language. In his presentation, Dr.

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Author:   Samuel Corson
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781461343004


ISBN 10:   1461343003
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   12 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks.- Welcome and Introduction.- An Eyewitness Account of Pavlov: The Man, The Scientist and His Contributions to Psychophysiology and Psychiatry.- Philosophical and Historical Roots of Pavlovian Psychobiology.- History of Soviet Psychology: Recent Sources of Information in English (1965–1975).- Social Psychology in the Soviet Union: Some Comments.- The Luria Battery of Tests: Techniques and Philosophy.- Intelligence, Soviet Dialectics and American Psychometrics; Implications for the Evaluation of Learning Disabilities.- A Comparative Look at Soviet Psychiatry: Training, Concepts, and Practice.- Psychotherapy in the USSR.- Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism in Soviet and American Societies: A Multidisciplinary Comparison.- Involuntary Hospitalization in The USSR.- Contributors and Participants.

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