Na co upozornilo politické zneuzívání psychiatrie ve vztahu psychiatrie a práva
[Awareness of the political abuse of psychiatry in relation to psychiatry and the law]
Language Czech Country Czech Republic Media print
Document type English Abstract, Historical Article, Journal Article
PubMed
7671335
- MeSH
- History, 20th Century MeSH
- Communism * history MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Psychiatry * history MeSH
- Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders history legislation & jurisprudence MeSH
- Check Tag
- History, 20th Century MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- English Abstract MeSH
- Journal Article MeSH
- Historical Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- USSR MeSH
The political abuse of psychiatry in the former USSR was enabled by: 1. a disproportionate pointing up of the medical criteria of mental disorder to the detriment of the social ones, above all by circumventing the sociological labelling process; 2. lack of control of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation by the law; 3. an obsolete definition of psychiatry. The author suggests a definition of psychiatry taking into consideration both the above mentioned criteria and making the importance of the legal control of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation more evident.
