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Soviet writers on the history of medicine and psychiatry consider that a distinctive feature in the development of Russian and Soviet psychotherapy is its intimate interrelationship, from the very beginning, with medicine and physiology.

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Ziferstein, I. (1976). Psychotherapy in the USSR. In: Corson, S.A., Corson, E.O. (eds) Psychiatry and Psychology in the USSR. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4298-4_10

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