On Friday March 29 1974, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a short paragraph to the effect that the Moscow parapsychologist Eduard Naumov had been sentenced to two year's hard labor. .. Dr. Andrej Shezhnevsky, whose name has repeatedly appeared as one testifying to the psychiatric instability of ideological dissidents, gave evidence for the prosecution. ..It would seem that the case against Naumov was entirely ideologically motivated. The two club officials who had .. collected money for Naumov lectures .. were declared mentally unstable and subjected to involuntary psychiatric treatment at the Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychological Expertise, whose director is Dr. Andrej Snezhnevsky. No testimony on Naumov's behalf was admitted, despite the fact that a large number of witnesses came forward and offered to testify. Samizdat protested. ..* Naumov, probably in response to an international outcry on his behalf, has been released from prison about a year before his sentence was due to end .. etc.
* L. Regelson, "An Appeal to Soviet and Foreign Public Opinion," Samizdat, translated June 25, 1974, by Caryl Emerson, published in the Journal of the Society for Psychic Research 47, no 762 (1974) : 521-524; A. Gregory, "Is Russia Adopting a Party Line on Parapsychology?" The London Times, July 2, 1974.Note Caryl Emerson
* Boris Godunov : transpositions of a Russian theme / Caryl Emerson. Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1986. xi, 272 p. : geneal. table ; 25 cm.
* The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin / Caryl Emerson. Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997. xvi, 293 p. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
* The life of Musorgsky / Caryl Emerson. Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxii, 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Etc.,Note Anita Gregory
* Experiments in distant influence : discoveries by Russia�s foremost parapsychologist / L. L. Vasiliev ; edited with an introd. by Anita Gregory Publisher London : Wildwood House, 1976 Description xl, 241 p. : ill. ; 21 cm ISBN 0704502348 Language English Note Translation of �ksperimentalnye issledovaniia myslennogo vnusheniia Includes bibliographical references Subject Mental suggestion
* The strange case of Rudi Schneider / by Anita Gregory. Imprint Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1985. xvii, 444 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.etc.
* Experiments in mental suggestion. [English translation authorised and rev. by Professor Vasiliev] Publisher Church Crookham, Eng., Institute for the Study of Mental Images, 1963. Description 178 p. illus., diagrs., tables. 25 cm. Series ISMI publications Note Translation of �ksperimental�nye issledovaniia myslennogo vnusheniia. Note Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 161-177) Language English* * *
[The New York Review of Books] Volume 23, Number 11 � June 24, 1976]
Help Moroz
By Jeri Laber
To the Editors:
According to news just received from Moscow, the Ukrainian political prisoner Valentin Moroz was transferred on May 10 from Vladimir Prison to the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry for a psychiatric examination. Moroz�who is forty years old�has served six years of a fourteen-year sentence in Vladimir Prison on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda; his hunger strike in 1974 aroused worldwide concern. He is a teacher of history, the author of Amidst the Snows, From the Beria Reserve, Dathan and Moses, among other works. He has been adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
This latest action threatens Moroz with involuntary confinement in a psychiatric hospital, a fate many Soviet prisoners consider worse than prison or labor camp. Reports indicate that psychiatrists at the Serbsky Institute will soon make the decision on Moroz's "sanity" that will decide his fate. It is urgent that all those interested in Moroz's freedom send cables to Moscow expressing their concern about his transfer to the Serbsky Institute. Such cables should also request that his wife Mrs. Raisa Moroz be permitted to choose a psychiatrist to take part in any examination given him. Cables should be addressed to Dr. A. Snezhevsky, Director, Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Kropotkinsky Pereulok 23, Moscow USSR. A copy should be sent to Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, Embassy of USSR, 1125 16th NW, Washington, DC 20036.
Jeri Laber
Amnesty International
2112 Broadway
New York City 10023
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."In the face of growing world concern about the publicized cases in the USSR, several psychiatric organizations, the WFMH among them, issued statements denouncing the practice of misusing psychiatric diagnosis to suppress dissent.But their belated protests sounded a little hollow when measured against the lavish praise they had earlier accorded Russian institutional psychiatry in their professional journals, lectures and reports.
It was precisely this argument, in fact, that was used by Dr. Andrei Snezhnevsky, chief psychiatrist of the Soviet Ministry of Health, in keeping the topic off the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association conference, held in Mexico City in the autumn of 1971.
Dr. Snezhnevsky pointed out that in 1967 a group of American mental health officials who had toured Russian mental hospitals, found nothing to condemn in the Russian system. According to an article by Dr. Zigmond M. Lebensohn, in the American Journal of Psychiatry (November 5, 1968) the "mission team" to which Dr. Snezhevsky referred was composed of "seven seasoned experts ... a prominent jurist, a public health administrator, a wellknown mental-health lobbyist and four highly experienced psychiatrists". "Prior to Stalin's death in 1953," wrote Dr. Lebensohn, "American psychiatrists had little first-hand knowledge of what was going on in Soviet medicine - even less in Soviet psychiatry. Since 1956, however, psychiatric pilgrims travelling singly or in groups have been wending their way in a steady stream to the main fonts of Soviet psychiatry."
Dr. Lebensohn's choice of the word pilgrim - commonly understood to mean a religious devotee who journeys to a shrine reveals much.
(Omar Garrison, The hidden story of scientology, Secaucus, N.J., 1974. Ch. 5)* * *
http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/gdoc/hearings/76603104/76603104.html
PREPARED STATEMENT OF LEONID PLYUSHCH A few words about myself and my "case". I am thirty-seven years old, my nationality is Ukrainian. I graduated from Kiev State Uhiversity, where I studied mathematics. Until 1968 I worked in the Institute of Cybernetics at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian S.S.R. I was dismissed from my position there under the pretext of a cutback in staff, but in fact I was fired for having written a protest letter to Kornsomolskaya Pravda about the case of Ginzburg and Galanskov. After that I could not find a job. In January 1972 I was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda. Why was I put in jail and then in a psychiatric hospital? In 1966 I began writing articles for samizdat, about the nature of the Soviet state, its ideology and nationality problems in the U.S.S.R. I believed that a revolution in the U.S.S.R. was impossible and unnecessary, but that gradual democratization of the country by reforms from above and propaganda among the people was essential. Because I wanted to take an active part in the struggle for democratization, I helped circulate samizdat and gather information for the Chronicle of Current Events and the Ukrainian Herald, which informed people about the struggle for human rights in the U.S.S.R. In 1969 I joined the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the U.S.S.R. This group legally protested violations of the Soviet Constitution and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. At that time there were fifteen members. Now, only two are free-Tatyana Velikanova and Tatyana Khodorovich. The others are in camps, have emigrated, or have ceased to be active after serving prison terms. Gregoriy Podyapolsky, a physicist by profession and a poet, died a few days ago. He died of nervous strain, persecution and worry about his friends. On January 15, 1972 I was arrested and held for interrogation in an isolation cell of the Republican KGB in Kiev. I was accused of all the above activities. From the first day of tlie investigation, I refused to give any testimony. I knew that any statement I might make about my friends, even a positive one, would be used against them. Neither the KGB nor the prosecutor's o~ce is in- terested in the truth. I told the investigator that I regard the KGB as an anti- constitutional organization and that I do not wish to partake in their crimes against the people As early as 1969 a friend of mine was told during an investigation that I was' a schizophrenic and had already been sent to a psychiatric hospital. Therefore, from the first day of my arrest, I was convinced that I would be placed in the Dnepropetrovsk psychiatric hospital. In May 1972 I was taken for an in-patient psychiatric examination of the Serbsky Institute, but I spent the next six months in Moscow's Lefortovo prison. The decision to place me under compulsory treatment was reached after a few conversations with the psychiatrists, among them such prominent Soviet psychiatrists as Academician Snezhevsky, Lunts, Nadzharov and the Morozovs. There were three experts in my case. As I learned later, the final diagnosis was I "creeping schizophrenia since adolescence." From July 1973 until January 8, 1976 I was in Dnepropetrovsk special psychiatric hospital. I was subjected to "treatment" by tranquilizers-haloparidol and triphtazin-and underwent two sessions of insulin therapy. Most of the inmates at the Dnepropetrovsk psychiatric hospital are mentally disturbed-murderers, rapists and hooligans. [etc]"Snezhnevsky was also criticized for classifying schizophrenic disorders by their lifetime clinical course, rather than by Bleulerian methods, based on the prominence of particular symptoms. Here also, Snezhnevsky�s views would garner considerable support, [?]* etc. [Internet : www.jaapl.org/cgi/reprint/30/1/107.pdf] * * *
* Do You Want to Know What is Really Going On ? ? Professor, etc. ? All you need to do is find out the supporters of Dr. Snezhnevsky's views.
It seems quite possible that every other problem will resolve in the course of somebody's doing so. (WPT).To The Scientist : Anywhere in the World : The "classifying schizophrenic disorders by their lifetime clinical course" is entirely consistent with somebody's having been given some sort of "diagnosis" and then undergoing said 'lifetime clinical course'.
This is from all appearances THE MOST DANGEROUS "SCIENTIFIC" HUMBUG EVER, the scientist (any true scientist, that is ; anywhere in the world). Please do not overlook.
Any legitimate science MIGHT be "at risk" due to all these abuses of human credulity, ignorance, timidity, complacency, etc. — by some who must ply pseudo-scientific fallacies on order to masquarade as "science".(WPT)
Handbook of psychiatry / [edited by A. V. Snezhnevskiy]. Publisher Arlington, Va. : Joint Publications Research Service ; Springfield, Va. : distributed by NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service, 1975. Description 2 v. (ii, a-b, 426 p.) ; 27 cm. Series JPRS ; 66097 Series JPRS (Series) ;66097. Note Translation of Spravochnik po psikhiatrii (Moscow, 1974) Language English Subject Psychiatry.