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No Asylum

State Psychiatric Repression in the Former USSR

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Theresa C. Smith

    1. Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

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  2. Thomas A. Oleszczuk

    1. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Political Hospitalization: Conception, Conceptualization and Conduct

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 1-43

  3. Characteristics of the Evidence: The Database of Psychiatric Hospital Detainees

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 44-64

  4. Four Explanations of the Political Use of Psychiatry

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 65-73

  5. Who Are the Dissident Detainees? Some Observations and Descriptive Statistics

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 74-91

  6. Trends, Changes with Administration and Spatial Dispersion

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 92-121

  7. The Risk of Psychiatric Detention, Demographic Variables and Deterrence of Dissent

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 122-145

  8. Legal and Political Developments in the Gorbachev and Yeltsin Administrations and After

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 146-172

  9. Summary of Empirical Findings and Conclusions

    • Theresa C. Smith, Thomas A. Oleszczuk
    Pages 173-200

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-290
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No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents. The book explains who was targeted and why, as the State used psychiatry to attempt to deflect, defuse, discredit or destroy the multifaceted dissident movement. Although new detentions virtually ceased as the Union fragmented, it is too early to write an epitaph for psychiatric abuse: political use of psychiatry could be revived in Russia.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

    Theresa C. Smith

  • Stern School of Business, New York University, USA

    Thomas A. Oleszczuk

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