Between healing and repression: The role of medicine and psychiatry in Hohenschönhausen prison as reconstructed from memories
Published online on March 15, 2026
Abstract
History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the role of medical, and in particular psychiatric, care in the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen remand prison, situated within the repressive state security apparatus of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Drawing on 11 oral history ...
This study investigates the role of medical, and in particular psychiatric, care in the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen remand prison, situated within the repressive state security apparatus of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Drawing on 11 oral history ...