Article ID: CBB001200905

Psychiatry, Authoritarianism, and Revolution: The Politics of Mental Illness during Military Dictatorships in Argentina, 1966--1983 (2013)

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From 1966 to 1983, Argentina underwent a period of political radicalization as fascist regimes used terror to control its citizens and leftist guerrillas resorted to violence to spark revolution. During this politically volatile period, psychiatry transformed from an apolitical clinical specialty into an ideological tool used for both leftist resistance and military oppression. The largest psychiatric organization at the time, the Federación Argentina de Psiquiatras (FAP), became the center for a new politically committed brand of psychiatry in Argentina that united psychoanalysis and community psychiatry with Marxist theory. Though the military targeted and eventually dismantled the FAP and its leftist brand of psychoanalysis and community psychiatry, sectors of the government also paradoxically appropriated and reframed community-based psychiatric perspectives to pathologize leftist subversion and advance their own conservative ideology.

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Authors & Contributors
Halliwell, Martin
Conseglieri, Ana
Farquharson, Jennifer
Lin, Zhuyun
Molaro, Aurelio
Golcman, Alejandra
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Medicine and politics
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Psychiatric hospitals
War neuroses
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Argentina
United States
Spain
China
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Scotland
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