Psychiatry in Communist Europe
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1048
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137490919
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This is the first book to address psychiatry under Communism across Central and Eastern Europe and the USSR. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the interplay between politics, ideology and psychiatry. Marks collaboratively led the process of commissioning and selecting the of the nine original chapter contributions from both established and emerging authors - covering the Soviet Union, Central Asia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania. This was done through a combination of an internationally advertised call for papers and via personal academic networks. She and Savelli shared the editing responsibilities, and Marks led (where appropriate) on the facilitation of translations. She also steered the authors through the external peer review process, taking the lead on five of the pieces, but playing a role in the editorial work on all of the chapters.
Marks co-wrote (as first author) the state-of-field introduction, ‘Communist Europe and Transnational Psychiatry’. She led the first draft of the chapter, critically reviewing the scant existing historiography, and developing the argument (along with Savelli) as a challenge to the misinformed tropes which dominated writing on the topic. She contributed two-thirds of the final text and worked with the co-author on the revisions in response to the peer reviews and series editors’ comments.
Marks also contributed an original, single-authored chapter, ‘Ecology, Humanism and Mental Health in Communist Czechoslovakia’, based on hitherto unexplored printed sources and Czech- and English-language archive material, which contributes to a re-evaluation of the Prague Spring period in the history of Communism, and the emerging literature on intellectual and scientific exchange across East and West during the Cold War. We are asking for her article (7,000 words) to be assessed alongside her co-written Introduction (10,500 words) and her overall editorial contribution.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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