Madness and the mad in Russian culture /

Madness and the mad in Russian culture / edited by Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2007. - x, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [301]-328.

cheerful empress and her gloomy critics : Catherine the Great and the eighteenth-century melancholy controversy / Osvidetel'stvovanie and Ispytanie of insanity : psychiatry in Tsarist Russia / Madness as an act of defence of personality in Dostoevsky's The double / Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian intelligentsia, and fan hysteria / On hostile ground : madness and madhouse in Joseph Brodsky's 'Gorbunov and Gorchakov' / concept of revolutionary insanity in Russian history / politics of etiology : shell shock in the Russian army, 1914-1918 / Lives out of balance : the 'possible world' of Soviet suicide during the 1920s / Early Soviet forensic psychiatric approaches to sex crime, 1917-1934 / Writing about madness : Russian attitudes toward psyche and psychiatry, 1887-1907 / 'Let them go crazy' : madness in the works of Chekhov / genetics of genius : V. P. Efroimson and the biosocial mechanisms of heightened intellectual activity / Madwomen without attics : the crazy creatrix and the procreative Iurodivaia / 'new Russian' madness? : Fedor Mikhailov's novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov's film Daun Khaus / Methods of madness and madness as a method / Ilya Vinitsky -- Lia Iangoulova -- Elena Dryzhakova -- Robert D. Wessling -- Lev Loseff -- Martin A. Miller -- Irina Sirotkina -- Kenneth Pinnow -- Dan Healey -- Angela Brintlinger -- Margarita Odesskaya -- Yvonne Howell -- Helena Goscilo -- Andrei Rogachevskii -- Mikhail Epstein. A The The The The A


Includes some articles translated into English from the Russian.

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Mental illness--History.--Russia (Federation)
Mental illness in literature.
Literature and mental illness--Russia (Federation)
Psychiatry--History.--Russia (Federation)
Genius and mental illness--Russia (Federation)
Mentally ill--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
Maladies mentales--Histoire.--Russie
Maladies mentales dans la littérature.
Littérature et maladies mentales--Russie.
PSYCHIATRIE--Histoire.--Russie
Génie et maladies mentales--Russie.
Malades mentaux--Russie--Biographies.


Russia (Federation)--Civilization.

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