Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse

The Campaign Against Psychiatric AbuseFormation| April 1975

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Founder| Viktor Fainberg
Dissolved| 1988
Type| Non-profit
ngo
Headquarters| London, United Kingdom
Fields| psychiatry

director

| Viktor Fainberg

chair

| Henry Dicks
Psychiatry in Russia and the USSR

* Mental health in Russia
* Political abuse in Russia
* Political abuse in the USSR
* Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse
* Working Commission
* Cases of political abuse
* Struggle against political abuse
* Serbsky Center
* Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute
* Independent Psychiatric Association
* Sluggish schizophrenia
* Sulfozinum
* Psikhushka

Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse was a group that was founded by Soviet dissident Viktor Fainberg[1] in April 1975 and participated in the struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union from 1975 to 1988.[2]

The Campaign involved national and international medical bodies[3] to reveal the monstrous abuse of human rights through the misuse of psychiatry.[4]

## Participants

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The English branch was set up on 5 September 1975[5] as the British section of the Action Committee Against Abuses of Psychiatry for Political Purposes[6] and composed of psychiatrists, other doctors, and laymen[7] including David Markham, Max Gammon, William Shawcross, George Theiner, James Thackara, Tom Stoppard, Marina Voikhanskaya, Eric Avebury,[8] Helen Bamber,[9] and Vladimir Bukovsky.[10]

The chair of the organisation was British psychiatrist Henry Dicks.[11] From the fall of 1976, its director was Viktor Fainberg.[12] Committees similar to the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse were later set up in France, Germany, and Switzerland.[13]

## Activities

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Campaigns of the British section of the group included a rally against psychiatric abuse in July 1976 in Trafalgar Square[7] and led to the release of Vladimir Borisov, Vladimir Bukovsky and Leonid Plyushch.[2] The group issued correspondence, bulletins, and other documents which are deposited in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.[2] The group was so effective that by the early 1980s Soviet psychiatry had pariah status.[14] Opposition in Britain including the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse led the Royal College of Psychiatrists to establish the Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in 1978.[15] The Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse actually never said what its fallback position was, this must mean that the Campaign favoured confinement of the innocent in prisons instead of mental hospitals.[16]

## References

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1. ^ Makeyeva 2013; Mosby 1977; Thorne (1977a, 1977b)
2. ^ a b c Cook 2012, p. 203.
3. ^ McCleskey 1985, p. 31.
4. ^ Janner 1977.
5. ^ Ukrainian Weekly 1976.
6. ^ Lader 1977, p. 189; McKane 2001
7. ^ a b New Scientist 1976.
8. ^ McKane 2001.
9. ^ Rappaport 2001, p. 46.
10. ^ Boobbyer 2009, p. 465.
11. ^ Bloch & Reddaway 1977, p. 328.
12. ^ Sakharov Hearing 1977, p. 182; Harper 1977; Heinrichs 1977
13. ^ Bukovskiĭ 1987, p. 19.
14. ^ Belton 2012, p. 270.
15. ^ Luty 2014.
16. ^ Clare 1986.

## Sources

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* "A new campaign against the political mind-benders". New Scientist. 71 (1007): 4. 1 July 1976.
* "English Psychiatrists Speak Out for Krasivsky" (PDF). The Ukrainian Weekly. No. 250\. 19 December 1976. p. 2.
* Международное слушание Сахарова в Копенгагене [International Sakharov Hearing in Copenhagen] (in Russian). Sakharov Hearing Committee. 1977. p. 182.
* The Good Listener: Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty. Faber & Faber. 2012. p. 270\. ISBN 978-0571295272.
* Russia's political hospitals: The abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1977. p. 328\. ISBN 0-575-02318-X.
* Boobbyer, Philip (July 2009). "Vladimir Bukovskii and Soviet Communism". The Slavonic and East European Review. 87 (3): 452–487\. doi:10.1353/see.2009.0092. JSTOR 40650408.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
* To Choose Freedom. Hoover Institution Press. 1987. p. 19\. ISBN 0817984410.
* "Eskimo Bernard". The Listener. 115: 20. 6 March 1986.
* The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives: Sources since 1945. Routledge. 2012. p. 203\. ISBN 978-1136509896.
* "Where dissent may spell torture of mind and body". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 April 1977. p. 7.
* "Tortured activist wants Russia condemned". The Age. 22 April 1977. p. 11.
* "Where dissent is branded as madness". Jewish Observer and Middle East Review. 26: 13. 21 July 1977.
* Psychiatry on Trial. Penguin. 1977. p. 189.
* Luty, Jason (January 2014). "Psychiatry and the dark side: eugenics, Nazi and Soviet psychiatry". Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. 20 (1): 52–60\. doi:10.1192/apt.bp.112.010330.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
* "Виктор Файнберг, основатель движения борьбы с карательной психиатрией: нет ничего хуже психушки, укол – и ты чувствуешь, как из тебя вытекает разум и душа" [Viktor Fainberg, the founder of the movement for the struggle against punitive psychiatry: There is nothing worse than psikhushka, after injection you feel how your reason and soul comes out of you] (in Russian). Dozhd. 9 October 2013.
* "Human rights work of scientific societies". Scientists and Human Rights: Present and Future Direction. AAAS Workshop Report: 24 May 1984. 85 (19): 31. 1985.
* McKane, Richard (October 2001). "Poems from the Arsenal". Index on Censorship. 30 (4): 102–106\. doi:10.1080/03064220108536983.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
* "Jailed Soviet dissident didn't dare show fear". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 4 February 1977. p. 38.
* Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. Vol. 2\. ABC-CLIO. 2001. p. 46\. ISBN 1576071014.
* "Inside Russia's mental prisons". Lakeland Ledger. 18 January 1977. p. 56.
* "Inside Russia's mental prisons". The Times-News. 21 June 1977. p. 11.

## Further reading

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* Hurst, Mark (2016). British human rights organizations and Soviet dissent, 1965–1985. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1472527288.

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