Back Andrei Wladimirowitsch Sneschnewski German Andrei Snežnevski Finnish Andriej Snieżniewski Polish Снежневский, Андрей Владимирович Russian Снєжневський Андрій Володимирович Ukrainian
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Andrei Snezhnevsky | |
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| Born | Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky 20 May [O.S. 7 May] 1904 |
| Died | 12 July 1987 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Russian |
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| Alma mater | Kazan Federal University |
| Known for | his active participation in Pavlovian session, political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union by developing and applying the diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia to political dissidents; no less active participation in persistent counteractions to stop struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union by attributing the struggle to the Cold War against the USSR at the Congresses of the World Psychiatric Association |
| Awards | the title of a Hero of Socialist Labour, two Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Star, the USSR State Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | forensic psychiatry and clinical psychiatry |
| Institutions | Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, All-Union Mental Health Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences |
Andrei Snezhnevsky (Russian: Андре́й Влади́мирович Снежне́вский, IPA: [sʲnʲɪˈʐnʲefskʲɪj]; 20 May [O.S. 7 May] 1904 – 12 July 1987) was a Soviet psychiatrist whose name was lent to the unbridled broadening of the diagnostic borders of schizophrenia in the Soviet Union,[1] the key architect of the Soviet concept of sluggish schizophrenia,[2] the inventor of the term "sluggish schizophrenia",[3] an embodier of history of repressive psychiatry, and a direct participant in psychiatric repression against dissidents.[4]
He was an academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences,[5]: 221 the director of the Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry (1950–1951),[5]: 221 the director of the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1962–1987),[5]: 220 and the director of the All-Union Mental Health Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1982–1987).
- ^ Nuller, Yuri (2008). Структура психических расстройств [The Structure of Mental Disorders] (PDF) (in Russian). Kyiv: Сфера. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-966-8782-44-2.
- ^ Probes, Lawrence; Kouznetsov, Vladimir; Verbitski, Vladimir; Molodyi, Vadim (June 1992). "Trends in Soviet and Post-Soviet Psychiatry" (PDF). The PSR Quarterly. 2 (2): 67–76. ISSN 1051-2438.
- ^ Korolenko, Caesar; Kensin, Dennis (2002). "Reflections on the past and present state of Russian psychiatry". Anthropology & Medicine. 9 (1): 51–64. doi:10.1080/13648470220130017. PMID 26953493. S2CID 34122656.
- ^ Gluzman, Semyon (2013). Снежневский [Snezhnevsky]. Вестник Ассоциации психиатров Украины [The Herald of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association] (in Russian) (6). The Ukrainian Psychiatric Association: 79–80.
- ^ a b c Bloch, Sidney; Reddaway, Peter (1977). Russia's political hospitals: The abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN 0-575-02318-X.
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