Soviet Psychiatry

Abstract

The secret practice of Soviet forensic psychiatry has never been accurately revealed in the mass media. Nor has there been an analysis of this practice at a scientific level. This is not because no one did such analysis until recently; published works on abuses in psychiatry are widely known. But all these publications were of a private character, as it were, based on the fates of individual dissidents and facts of a subjective nature. All of them could have been easily refuted taken separately.