ABSTRACT
Studying and practising psychotherapy was controlled by the apparatus of the Communist Party. The mentally ill people recruited in the organizations wavered between blind dependency and idealization, or sporadic outbursts of paranoid claims of mischief on the part of the psychologists and psychiatrists that presided over them. The “West” was funding the emergence of civil participation in the former communist countries. Personal authority is manifest in the course of learning from the experience, which, when successful, helps us to risk with a personal, idiosyncratic picture of the world. Individuals are doomed to live inside someone else’s authority and this “captivity” makes them feel and behave inauthentically and in isolation from each other, a kind of cultural production of false selves. Psychodynamic exploration of interagency collaboration in mental health and child welfare fields in Bulgaria”.
