TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sirotkina,Irina
TI  - Diagnosing Literary Genius: A Cultural History of Psychiatry in Russia, 1880-1930
T2  - Medicine and Culture Series
SN  - 9780801876899
AV  - RC450.R8 S57 2002 
U1  - 616.89/00947 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Psychiatry-Russia-History-19th century
KW  - Psychiatry-Russia-History-20th century
KW  - Russian literature-19th century
KW  - Russian literature-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- On Transliteration and Spelling -- Introduction -- ONE  Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry -- TWO  Dostoevsky -- THREE  Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia -- FOUR  Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health -- FIVE  The Institute of Genius -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - By 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
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ER  -