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The current situation in Soviet psychiatry regarding political abuses

Testimony before a Hearing of the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 12 July 1989

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Reddaway
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The current situation in Soviet psychiatry needs a surrealist of Kafka's skill to describe it. On the one hand, an increasing range of Soviet journals have, since last November, been forthrightly saying what Soviet dissidents and Western observers have said for 20 years. This is that politically motivated abuse of psychiatry has taken place in the USSR on a large scale for decades, causing enormous human suffering. Second, some of these journals point out that abuses, though much reduced in scale, continue to occur today.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , October 1989 , pp. 529 - 532
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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1 Among those not discussed in this testimony are articles in Literaturnaya gazeta (3l May 1989), Znamya (No. 7, 1988), Uchitelskaya gazeta (19 November 1988), and Meditsinskaya gazeta (21 May 1989). Google Scholar

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