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Joseph Stalin's son Vasily went to the first psychoanalytic center in the history of mankind…
Joseph Stalin's son Vasily went to the first psychoanalytic kindergarten in human history along with the children of other representatives of the Bolshevik elite. There he was taught by Carl Jung's lover and patient. And the children were raised in conditions of sexual freedom and a complete absence of shame.
And what happened at the end of this story – you will find out in the new episode of Sergei Izotov’s podcast “The End of History”, dedicated to the history of madness and mental health in Russia.
Inside is a story about how our ancestors treated mental illness, about Russian foolishness, the first Russian mental hospitals, real cases of madness from the 19th century, the first Russian psychoanalysts, Freud's main patient (he was a Russian from Odessa), sexual fantasies of the Russian intelligentsia, Soviet attempts to create a new person based on psychoanalysis, unique surveys of Soviet children, the death of psychoanalysis in the thirties, punitive psychiatry and sluggish schizophrenia.
Bonus: stories about how Ivan Ilyin was treated by Freud, therapy in the Gulag, the Estonian president in the Kazan mental hospital, Soviet documentaries about hypnosis, Pavlov’s dogs and the woman thanks to whom Nietzsche invented the Superman.
Watch the new episode of “The End of History” on VK Video and YouTube.
And listen on audio platforms:
VK Music
Yandex.Music
Apple Podcasts
SOUND
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And what happened at the end of this story – you will find out in the new episode of Sergei Izotov’s podcast “The End of History”, dedicated to the history of madness and mental health in Russia.
Inside is a story about how our ancestors treated mental illness, about Russian foolishness, the first Russian mental hospitals, real cases of madness from the 19th century, the first Russian psychoanalysts, Freud's main patient (he was a Russian from Odessa), sexual fantasies of the Russian intelligentsia, Soviet attempts to create a new person based on psychoanalysis, unique surveys of Soviet children, the death of psychoanalysis in the thirties, punitive psychiatry and sluggish schizophrenia.
Bonus: stories about how Ivan Ilyin was treated by Freud, therapy in the Gulag, the Estonian president in the Kazan mental hospital, Soviet documentaries about hypnosis, Pavlov’s dogs and the woman thanks to whom Nietzsche invented the Superman.
Watch the new episode of “The End of History” on VK Video and YouTube.
And listen on audio platforms:
VK Music
Yandex.Music
Apple Podcasts
SOUND
