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No Asylum
Oleszczuk, Thomas A.; Smith, Theresa C.
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Description for No Asylum
Paperback. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; JHB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 389.
No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents. The book explains who was targeted and why, as the State used psychiatry to attempt to deflect, defuse, discredit or destroy the multifaceted dissident movement. Although new detentions virtually ceased as the Union fragmented, it is too early to write an epitaph for psychiatric abuse: political use of psychiatry could be revived in Russia.
No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents. The book explains who was targeted and why, as the State used psychiatry to attempt to deflect, defuse, discredit or destroy the multifaceted dissident movement. Although new detentions virtually ceased as the Union fragmented, it is too early to write an epitaph for psychiatric abuse: political use of psychiatry could be revived in Russia.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349135578
SKU
V9781349135578
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99-15
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