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Russian Literature and Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Kachaeva*
Affiliation:
Serbsky Research Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow

Extract

The subject of this paper is psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and Russian literature. It is well-known that people with literary talent often possess unusually keen psychological insight. Their literary portrayals of psychological analysis, descriptions of how the human mind and consciousness work and depiction of different psychic states, both normal and pathological, are of great value for psychology and psychiatry and have always attracted the active attention of specialists.

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Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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