Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes

The Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes
Рабочая комиссия по расследованию использования психиатрии в политических целях
Formation5 January 1977 (1977-01-05)
FounderAlexandr Podrabinek
Dissolved21 July 1981 (1981-07-21)
TypeNon-profit
NGO
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
FieldsPsychiatry
LeaderAlexandr Podrabinek
Publication
Parent organization
Moscow Helsinki Group
Anatoly Koryagin (b. 1938), a psychiatrist, expert of the Working Commission

The Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes (Russian: Рабо́чая коми́ссия по рассле́дованию испо́льзования психиатри́и в полити́ческих це́лях) was an offshoot of the Moscow Helsinki Group[1][2] and a key source of information on psychiatric repression in the Soviet Union.[3]

  1. ^ Reddaway, Peter (23 February 1978). "More psychiatric terror". The New York Review of Books.
  2. ^ Burns, John (26 July 1981). "Moscow silencing psychiatry critics". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Алексеева, Людмила (2013) [1979]. "Путеводитель по аду психиатрических тюрем" [The guidebook to the hell of psychiatric prisons]. Kontinent (in Russian) (152).

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