Tag: Soviet psychiatry

Putin Regime Abusing Psychology the Way Soviets Did Psychiatry, Russian Psychologist Says

April 7, 2015

Staunton, April 7 — One of the most notorious practices of the Soviet system in its last decades was the incarceration of perfectly health dissidents in psychiatric prisons under the pretext that they were suffering from “sluggish schizophrenia” and treating them with mind-altering drugs in the name of “curing” them of their proclivity to dissent. […]