Histoires oubliées – les drames des psychologues roumains sous la dictature: gens emprisonnés, enquêtés, surveillés
Forgotten (Hi)Stories of Detention, Surveillance, and Interrogation: The Drama of Romanian Psychologists under Communism

Summary/Abstract: The study seeks to provide a model for explaining the pressure of a repressive ideological and institutional context on the personal and professional lives of psychologists in Romania after the installation of the pro‑Soviet regime in the aftermath of World War II. It examines the strategies used by Romanian psychologists to escape or resist this pressure. Special attention is devoted to the surveillance, interrogation, and detention of important Romanian psychologists under Communism. The paper appeals to familiar theories and paradigms of social psychology such as the pressure of the context and the manipulation of its social representations in order to understand how totalitarian society affects private life and scientific work.

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