No Asylum: State Psychiatric Repression in the Former USSR (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349135578)

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.

Author: Thomas A. Oleszczuk,Theresa C. Smith
ISBN-10: 1349135577
ISBN-13: 9781349135578
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d