Psychiatry and Psychology in the USSR

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introductory Remarks

   • Leon I. Twarog

   Pages 1-2

3. Welcome and Introduction

   • Ian Gregory

   Pages 3-4

4. An Eyewitness Account of Pavlov: The Man, the Scientist and His Contributions to Psychophysiology and Psychiatry

   • W. Horsley Gantt

   Pages 5-18

5. Philosophical and Historical Roots of Pavlovian Psychobiology

   • Samuel A. Corson, Elizabeth O’Leary Corson

   Pages 19-58

6. History of Soviet Psychology: Recent Sources of Information in English (1965–1975)

   • Josef Brožek

   Pages 59-82

7. Social Psychology in the Soviet Union: Some Comments

   • Robert M. Krauss

   Pages 83-90

8. The Luria Battery of Tests: Techniques and Philosophy

   • Elkhonon A. Goldberg

   Pages 91-119

9. Intelligence, Soviet Dialectics and American Psychometrics; Implications for the Evaluation of Learning Disabilities

   • Robert H. Wozniak

   Pages 121-132

10. A Comparative Look at Soviet Psychiatry: Training, Concepts, and Practice

    • Jimmie Holland

    Pages 133-142

11. Psychotherapy in the USSR

    • Isidore Ziferstein

    Pages 143-179

12. Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism in Soviet and American Societies: A Multidisciplinary Comparison

    • Boris M. Segal

    Pages 181-259

13. Involuntary Hospitalization in the USSR

    • Boris M. Segal

    Pages 267-284

14. Contributors and Participants

    • Boris M. Segal

    Pages 285-288

15. Back Matter

    Pages 289-296

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This book is aimed at a professional audience of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators, as well as Slavic studies scholars and teachers and intelligent lay readers. It would be presumptious to attempt to cover the entire field of Soviet psychiatry and psychology in one modest volume. During the past several decades there has been a remarkable flourishing and diversification of research in psychology and psychiatry in the USSR. What we have attempted to do in this symposium is to present a constructive critical overview of certain limited areas by arranging an interchange of observations and ideas between several American scientists knowledgeable in these fields and a psychologist and psychiatrist who obtained their education and working experience in the USSR. We hope to be able to expand such symposia in the future, so as to cover other important areas of these disciplines. This monograph presents an eyewitness account of Pavlov by W. Horsley Gantt, one of three surviving students of Pavlov, and, to the best of my knowledge, the only American who actually studied and worked with Pavlov. It is a measure of Dr. Gantt's devotion to the development of scientific psychiatry that he went to the USSR to spend six years in Pavlov's laboratory at a time of extreme economic hardship and political turmoil in that country and in the face of having to master a difficult language. In his presentation, Dr.

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