Psychiatric Terror

By Peter Reddaway and Sidney Bloch

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465064884
• ISBN13: 9780465064885
• Release Date: September 1977
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

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The Definitive work

When first published in 1977 in Britain under the title of "Russia's Political Hospitals",Vladimir Bukovsky, a former dissident hospitalised during the Brezhnev era, said it would become 'a kind of encyclopaedia, an indispensable source for all those interested in the problem of psychiatric abuse'. That it has become. Copiously documented and dispassionately written, it is the definitive work on the misapplication of psychiatry for political ends. The Soviet regime may have collapsed but the methods it describes could be and probably in certain quarters still are practiced by totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Any one interested in Human Rights and Medical Ethics should read this book.