VENUE
CEFRES, Na Florenci 3/1420, Prague 1
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PROGRAMME
9.00 CONFERENCE OPENING
- PANEL I. Producing Psy-expertise in the Eastern Bloc
CHAIR: Martin Schulze Wessel (Collegium Carolinum)
9.30 Ana Antic (University of Copenhagen): Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Beyond the Hospital in Socialist Yugoslavia
9.50 Melinda Kovai (Eötvös Lorand University): From a Movement to the Privatization of Psychotherapy – Group Psychotherapy in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s
10.10 Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London): From Pavlov’s Dogs to Cybernetic Tortoises: The Psy-Professions and the New Science of Cybernetics in Communist Czechoslovakia
10.30 – 11.15 Discussion
11.15 – 11.30 Break
- PANEL II. Defining (Ab)normality
CHAIR: Adéla Gjuričová (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
11.30 Christiane Brenner (Collegium Carolinum): Judging the Anti-Socialist Element: The Role of Psychiatric Experts in Trials Against ‘Parasitic Women’ in Socialist Czechoslovakia
11.50 Kate Davison (University of Melbourne): From Prague to Sydney: Rethinking Psychiatry, Sexology and ‘Sexpertise’ in the Cold War
12.10 Jakub Střelec (Charles University in Prague): Psychopaths as ‘New Danger‘ to the Socialist Society. Forensic Psychiatry, Criminology and Crime in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s
12.30 – 13.15 Discussion
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch Break
- PANEL III. Shaping the ‘Socialist Self’
CHAIR: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
14.15 Verena Lehmbrock (Erfurt University): Psychological Leadership Training in East Germany – A Transnational Technology of the Self?
14.35 Frank Henschel (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel): Bowlby vs KPČ: Knowledge Transfer, Psychology and the System of State Childcare in Socialist Czechoslovakia
14.55 Lisa Dittrich (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Partnership and the Socialist Personality: Marital Coping Strategies in the GDR between Empowerment and Subjection
15.15 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Closing remarks