Soviet theatre in the fight against neurasthenia in the 1920s and 1930s – psychiatry in theatre
Soviet theatre in the fight against neurasthenia in the 1920s and 1930s – psychiatry in theatre
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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Since neurasthenia had been perceived as a side-effect of a modernising America, Beard called it ‘the American disease’. Soviet psychiatrists believed that the cause of the nervous exhaustion lay in the revolutionary sufferings of Bolsheviks during the civil war and in psychological stress during the post-war reconstruction of the country. In accor...
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Soviet theatre in the fight against neurasthenia in the 1920s and 1930s – psychiatry in theatre
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2493004452
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2493004452
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0007-1250
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1472-1465
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10.1192/bjp.2020.215
