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2. Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for ...

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   The commission was established on 5 January 1977 on the initiative of Alexandr Podrabinek [4] along with a 47-year-old self-educated worker Feliks Serebrov, a 30-year-old computer programmer Vyacheslav Bakhmin and Irina Kuplun [5]: 148 and was composed of five open members and several anonymous ones, including a few psychiatrists who, at great danger to themselves, conducted their own ...

3. Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet ...

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   The Soviets were readmitted to the WPA under conditions [150] and on the ground of having made a public confession of the existence of previous psychiatric abuse and having given a commitment to review any present or subsequent cases and to sustain and introduce reforms to the psychiatric system and new mental health legislation. [145]

4. Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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   The "anti-Soviet" political behavior of some individuals – being outspoken in their opposition to the authorities, demonstrating for reform, and writing critical books – were defined simultaneously as criminal acts (e.g., a violation of Articles 70 or 190–1), symptoms of mental illness (e.g., "delusion of reformism"), and susceptible to a ready-made diagnosis (e.g., "sluggish ...

5. Cases of political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

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   Tarsis denounces Soviet psychiatry as pseudo-science and charlatanism and writes that, firstly, it has pretenses of curing the sickness of men's souls, but denies the existence of the soul; secondly, since there is no satisfactory definition of mental health, there can be no acceptable definition of mental disease in Soviet society. [73]

6. Serbsky Center - Wikipedia

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   In 2004, proponents of mental health reform failed to prevent the effort by the doctors of the Serbsky Institute to roll back reforms in the landmark Russian Mental Health Law. [19] Savenko also claimed that over five years, from 1998 to 2003, the Serbsky Center made three proposals to amend the Law, but the IPA and general public managed to ...

7. Psikhushka - Wikipedia

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   This word has been occasionally used in English, since the Soviet dissident movement and diaspora community in the West used the term. In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons, in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and ...