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- rysk författare (sv)
- סופר רוסי (iw)
- ލިޔުންތެރިއެއް (dv)
- Russisch schrijver (nl)
- نویسنده روسی (fa)
- russisk skribent (da)
- russisk skribent (nn)
- scrittore russo (it)
- كاتب سوفييتي (ar)
- aktivis hak manungsa Ruslan (jv)
- United Kingdom ninsala hachinima tuuntumdi so ŋun nyɛ doo (dag)
- радянський дисидент, правозахисник, письменник, публіцист, історик (uk)
- Yazıçı, siyasi və ictimai xadim, SSRİ-də dissident hərəkatının banilərindən biri (az)
- Escritor y activista de derechos humanos ruso (es)
- rosyjski dysydent, pisarz, obrońca praw człowieka (pl)
- яҙыусы, сәйәси һәм йәмәғәт эшмәкәре, СССР-ҙа диссидент хәрәкәтенә нигеҙ һалыусыларҙың береһе (ba)
- neuvostoliittolainen aktivisti (fi)
- padomju rakstnieks un disidents (lv)
- russeschen a sowjeteschen Dissident (lb)
- sovetia disidento, verkisto kaj homrajta aktivulo (eo)
- sowjetischer Dissident (de)
- szovjet emigráns, emberjogi aktivista (hu)
- писатель, политический и общественный деятель, диссидент (ru)
- dissident soviètic, escriptor i defensor dels drets humans (ca)
- écrivain russe et dissident soviétique (fr)
- ruský politický aktivista, neurofyziolog a spisovatel (cs)
- Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union (en)
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- In recent years in our country a number of court orders have been made involving the placing in psychiatric hospitals of people who in the opinion of their relatives and close friends are mentally healthy. These people are: Grigorenko, Rips, Gorbanevskaya, Novodvorskaya, Ivan Yakhimovich, Vladimir Gershuni, Victor Fainberg, Victor Kuznetsov, Olga Ioffe, Vladimir E. Borisov and others – people well known for their initiative in defence of civil rights in the USSR.
This phenomenon arouses justified anxiety, especially in view of the widely publicized placing of the biologist Zhores Medvedev in a psychiatric hospital by extrajudicial means.
The diagnoses of the psychiatrists who have served as expert witnesses in court, and on whose diagnoses the court orders are based, provoke many doubts as regards their content. However, only specialists in psychiatry can express authoritative opinions about the degree of legitimacy of these diagnoses.
Taking advantage of the fact that I have managed to obtain exact copies of the diagnostic reports made by the forensic-psychiatric groups who examined Grigorenko, Fainberg, Gorbanevskaya, Borisov and Yakhimovich, and also extracts from the diagnosis on V. Kuznetsov, I am sending you these documents, and also various letters and other material which reveal the character of these people. I will be very grateful to you if you can study this material and express your opinion on it.
I realise that at a distance and without the essential clinical information it is very difficult to determine the mental condition of a person and either to diagnose an illness or assert the absence of any illness. Therefore I ask you to express your opinion on only this point: do the above-mentioned diagnoses contain enough scientifically-based evidence not only to indicate the mental illnesses described in the diagnoses, but also to indicate the necessity of isolating these people completely from society?
I will be very happy if you can interest your colleagues in this matter and if you consider it possible to place it on the agenda for discussion at the next International Congress of Psychiatrists.
For a healthy person there is no fate more terrible than indefinite internment in a mental hospital. I believe that you will not remain indifferent to this problem and will devote a portion of your time to it – just as physicists find time to combat the use of the achievements of their science in ways harmful to mankind.
Thanking you in advance,
V. Bukovsky
— Bukovsky's 1971 letter addressed to Western Psychiatrists (en)
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