Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psychiatric assessment of a person typically begins with a case history and mental status examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance with clinical concepts listed in diagnostic manuals such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), edited and used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the widely used Diagnostic and …
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
psychiatrists are extremely distressed at the misuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the Soviet Union« … Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Politicsl Purposes, I have carefully considered … Union which come to our notice. The abuse cf psychiatry for political purposes is one of the most uistab'U- … Union which come to our notice. The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes is one of the most distasteful … occasions made clear their views on the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the Soviet Union. …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
of Atomic Energy. From Spain, a professor in psychiatry returned to Chile, after having completed specialized …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
of its own deficiencies. In the Soviet Union, psychiatry, a healing science, has been perverted into … Commission for the Investigation of the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes have also been imprisoned … information which helped to expose the misuse of psychiatry, - Last February, Yuri Valov, a member of a … unafraid to speak up against the political abuse of psychiatry. Dr. Ternovsky's words at his trial are illuminating: … the name of medicine. I became convinced that psychiatry is in fact being misused, and that it is necessary …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
International Association on Political Use of Psychiatry has written to the Yugoslav President to express … International Association on Political Use of Psychiatry wrote to the Yugoslav President about a journalist …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
including those protesting about the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. Many of those put on … Working Commission to investigate the use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes. w ii'ter harrassment … Working Commission to Investigate ^he u"e o Psychiatry for Political Purposes unde'r the aegis of^the …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence concerning scientific freedom in Hungary. The documents cover an enquiry from a university researcher seeking information about the work of scientists in Hungary; and the response …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
well-known dissident V Bukovsky, a Handbook on Psychiatry for Dissidents. Gluzman refused to work as … the notorious Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry in Moscow where he had been held for a time. … collecting material exposing Soviet abuses of psychiatry and in 1977 produced a samizdat work entitled … Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes under the aegis of the … Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes and a member of the Moscow …
