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Research batch 5
Batch 5.
Batch 5 (6 Oct 2026) adds the Southern Cone — Argentina, Chile and Uruguay — where the documented pattern is inverted: the dictatorships targeted the mental-health professions and used psychiatric labels inside prisons rather than confining dissidents in hospitals.
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Read the full source record →Argentina: psychiatric labels inside political prisons
Argentina, 1976–1983
Rafael and Melo's Locura y suicidio en las cárceles de la dictadura describes prison psychiatry recast as a control instrument: prisoners classified as "inestables", "peligrosos", "paranoicos" or "desequilibrados", which opened the door to isolation and medication…
Read the recordChile: mental-health professionals and dictatorship-era torture
Chile, 1973–1990
Twelve interviews with psychologists trained 1973–1990, a Colegio de Psicólogos ethics file, and a dictatorship-era interview show direct and indirect contributions to interrogations; the Colegio Médico's ethics department (Díaz Paci) characterized medical supervision…
Read the recordUruguay: the Britos collaboration lead
Uruguay, 1973–1985
Dolcey Britos, psychiatrist, documented as working with the military regime in the treatment of political prisoners; later subject of professional sanction
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