Revolutionizing Cuban Psychiatry: The Freud Wars
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
; 91(1): [61]-93, spring 2017.
Artículo
en Inglés
| HISA - História de la Salud
| ID: his-37634
Biblioteca responsable:
BR1273.1
Ubicación: BR1273.1
ABSTRACT
This article traces the battle over Freud within Cuban psychiatry from its pre-1959 origins through the disappearance of Freud by the early 1970s. It devotes particular attention to the visit of two Soviet psychiatrists to Cuba in the early 1960s as part of a broader campaign to promote Pavlov. The decade-long controversy over Freud responded to both theoretical and political concerns. If for some Freud represented political conservatism and theoretical mystification, Pavlov held out the promise of a dialectical materialist future. Meanwhile, other psychiatrists clung to psychodynamic perspectives, or at least the possibility of heterogeneity. The Freudians would end up on the losing side of this battle, with many departing Cuba over the course of the 1960s. But banishing Freud did not necessarily make for stalwart Pavloviansor vanguard revolutionaries. Psychiatry would find itself relegated to a handmaiden position in the work of revolutionary mental engineering, with the government itself occupying the vanguard.(AU)
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Base de datos:
HISA - História de la Salud
Asunto principal:
Filosofía
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Psiquiatría
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Cuba
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Historia de la Medicina
País/Región como asunto:
Caribe
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Cuba
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Año:
2017
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Artículo