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When Soviet psychiatry absorbed political dissent
Forensic diagnosis (Snezhnevsky's "sluggish schizophrenia," with symptoms such as "reform delusions"), Serbsky Institute evaluations, special psychiatric hospitals; estimated one-third of political prisoners held psychiatrically
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- Country / period
- USSR, c. 1960–1989
- Mechanism
- Forensic diagnosis (Snezhnevsky's "sluggish schizophrenia," with symptoms such as "reform delusions"), Serbsky Institute evaluations, special psychiatric hospitals; estimated one-third of political prisoners held psychiatrically
- Documentation and status
- ADMISSION by the Soviet delegation at the 1989 WPA Athens congress; Bukovsky's 1971 documents; Bloch & Reddaway, Psychiatric Terror (1977/1984); van Voren 2010
- Similarity to California
- Elastic diagnostic categories; psychiatric labels discounting a speaker's later testimony
- Difference from California
- State designed the mechanism; no independent courts, counsel, or habeas; confinement indefinite
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1960s–1980s-USSR-PUNITIVE