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Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982

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Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 - Alexander, Rustam
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This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The examination of these unique and little known documents contributes to our scant knowledge about the practices that many would call a Soviet proto-type of 'aversion therapy'. It also helps us understand the way homosexual people faced "queer dilemmas" of the self and how they sought to reconcile their queer ...

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Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 2023, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

ISBN-13: 9783031458699

Hardcover