Dr Sarah Marks
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept of History, Classics and Archaeology
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Sarah Marks is a post-doctoral researcher working with the Wellcome Trust-funded Hidden Persuaders group. Her research focuses on the history of the psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis during the Cold War, especially in the Soviet sphere. She was awarded her PhD from UCL in 2015, and held a research fellowship at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge before joining Birkbeck in October 2016.
Research Interest
Psychiatry, Mental illness
Publications
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'Ecology, Humanism and Mental Health in Communist Czechoslovakia' in Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks (eds) Psychiatry in Communist Europe (Palgrave, 2015)
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'From Experimental Psychosis to Resolving Traumatic Pasts: Psychedelic Research in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1954-1974', Cahiers du monde russe, 56:1, 2015, pp. 53-75
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‘Psychotherapy in Historical Perspective’, History of the Human Sciences, 30:2, 2017, pp. 3-16
