Don't hope to get rid of books (Umberto Eco)
+371 27000041, +371 27000045
(on working days 9:00-17:00 latvian)
+371 27000041
+371 27000045

(on working days 10:00-17:00)

Seven Years in Kresty: Prison Through the Eyes of a Psychiatrist – Gavrish Alexey – Alpina Publisher – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-00223-013-6

Seven Years in Kresty: Prison Through the Eyes of a Psychiatrist
14.99 €
Out of stock
Seven Years in Kresty: Prison Through the Eyes of a Psychiatrist
14.99 €
To add a product to the waitlist, please sign in: Log in
Seven years in one of Russia's most famous places of detention is a serious term, well worthy of such a time-honored genre as prison memoirs. All the more so because Alexei Gavrish spent these years in St. Petersburg's Kresty detention center not as a prisoner, but first as a psychiatrist and then as the head of the largest psychiatric department in the penal system of the entire northwest of the country.
From this rather exotic point of view, he talks very frankly about how Russian prisons and prison medicine are organized: who works there and for what purpose; who and how they sit there; who and guided by what principles they treat; who and what they are treated for. Simulants and operatives, drug addicts and schizophrenics, orderlies and pedophiles: what literally goes on in the minds of all these people united by a very strange and complex place of common residence - starting with the author, who by the finale discovers himself a monster and decides to leave the criminal system.
See also:

You might be interested:

Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion
Popular science and informative literature
Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion
Arntzen Marie Grinde
14.99 €
In basket
Capital in the 21st Century
Popular science and informative literature
Capital in the 21st Century
Piketty Thomas
29.99 €
In basket
Supervise and Punish: The Birth of Prison
Popular science and informative literature
Supervise and Punish: The Birth of Prison
Foucault Michel
14.99 €
In basket
Why are some countries rich and others poor?
Popular science and informative literature
Why are some countries rich and others poor?
Acemoglu Daron, Robinson James
19.99 €
In basket