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[The Journal "Deine Gesundheit" - A Reflection of Social Psychiatry in the GDR?]
Thomas R Müller1,2, Kathleen Haack3,2, Hans Jörgen Grabe3
1Sächsisches Psychiatriemuseum - Durchblick e.V., Leipzig.
Background:
Articles on psychiatric care in the GDR published in the journal "Deine Gesundheit" are identified. This involved examining how psychiatry was presented to the public and the intentions of addressing a lay audience.
Methodology:
All booklets published between 1955 and 1989 were systematically reviewed, the role of the publishers examined, and an assessment made in the context of social psychiatry and sociopolitical conditions.
Results:
There was a lively publication activity of psychiatric topics by mainly professional actors. The temporal accumulation in the context of psychiatric reform efforts is striking.
Conclusions:
Reform-oriented psychiatrists in particular used the popular science medium to reach a broad public and thus greater social acceptance of community psychiatric care concepts.
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