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Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 45, Number 23
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.45.23.psychnews_45_23_015
The abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, and the protest of that abuse by APA and other psychiatric organizations and individuals, was an epic chapter in the Cold War (see Historic Visit Documented Abuses, Led to Psychiatric System Reform). The following resources were valuable in creating this three-part series for Psychiatric News and provide a fuller account of this turbulent period in psychiatry's history:

Books

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Cold War in Psychiatry: Secret Factors, Human Actors, by Robert van Voren (Rodopi Publishers, 2010)
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Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry Is Used to Suppress Dissent, Peter Reddaway and Sidney Bloch, M.D. (Basic Books, 1977)
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Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow Over World Psychiatry, by Peter Reddaway and Sidney Bloch, M.D. (Westview Press, 1985)
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Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective, by Melvin Sabshin, M.D. (American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 2008)

Journal Articles

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“Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry: Report of the U.S. Delegation,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, supplement to volume 15, number 4, 1989
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“Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union and in China: Complexities and Controversies,” R.J. Bonnie, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, vol. 30, no. 1, 2002
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“Psychiatry on the Side of Angels: The Falun Gong and Soviet Jewry,” Alan Stone, M.D., Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, vol. 30, no. 1, 2002
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“Semyon Gluzman and the Unraveling of Soviet Psychiatry,” R.J. Bonnie, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, vol. 29, no. 3, 2001
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“Unwilling Patients,” Anatoly Koryagin, M.D., The Lancet, vol. 317, no. 8224, 1981

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