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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 ...
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]
The Serbsky Central Research Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, also briefly called the Serbsky Institute (the part of its building in Moscow). In the Soviet Union, a systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place [1] and was based on the interpretation of political dissent as a psychiatric problem. [2]
After almost four decades, the Mental Health Act (精神保健法,, Seishin Hoken Hō) was finally passed in 1987. The new law corrected the flaws of the Mental Hygiene Act by allowing the Ministry of Health and Welfare to set regulations on the treatment of mental patients in both medical and legal settings.
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 mentally.
The system is named after Nikolai Semashko, a Soviet People's Commissar for Healthcare. [1] The model is largely continued in Russia , most other post-Soviet states [ 2 ] (exceptions are: Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Baltic states), and some other formerly Soviet-aligned states (such as North Korea [ 3 ] and Cuba [ 4 ] ) and is regarded as ...
Marina Basmanova lived in fear of the Soviet authorities until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; only after this was their son Andrei Basmanov allowed to join his father in New York. [ citation needed ] In the 1990s, Brodsky invited Andrei to visit him in New York for three months and they maintained a father-son relationship until ...
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 ...