Introduction of psychopharmacotherapy in Soviet psychiatric practice in the 1950s–1960s

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Dem'yanov GV, Likhterman BL. [Introduction of psychopharmacotherapy in Soviet psychiatric practice in the 1950s–1960s]. Rossiiskii psikhiatricheskii zhurnal [Russian Journal of Psychiatry]. 2025;(2):88-98. Russian

Abstract

In this scientific review aspects of the organization of clinical and scientific activities of the staff of some of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Moscow, the city hospitals No 3 and No 4 named after P.B. Gannushkin, in the 1950s–1960s are analyzed in order to determine features of the introduction of psychopharmacotherapy into Soviet psychiatric practice. Due to the leading position of the capital's psychiatric hospitals in treatment issues, a number of these features of the use of psychopharmacotherapy could be successfully applied in other Soviet psychiatric institutions. This review is based on the study of archival materials of psychiatric hospitals No 3 (Central State Archive of Moscow. F. R-1126. Inv. 1) and No 4 (Central State Archive of Moscow. F. R-533. Inv. 1).

Keywords psychopharmacotherapy; psychopharmacology; psychotropic drugs; organization of Soviet psychiatric care

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