Punitive Psychiatry

in the campaign “The "General Pogrom" of Human Rights Defenders and Punitive Psychiatry (1972–1985)”

Use of state healthcare institutions for the politically motivated diagnosing of dissenters (the diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia") and their indefinite confinement in psychiatric hospitals[1].

ID: C0089.T0135
Technique:  Punitive Psychiatry
Start: January 1972
End: December 1985
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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