Punitive Medicine and Psychiatry
The use of the state healthcare apparatus, psychiatric clinics, and research institutes as a punitive instrument. The system of medical institutions is turned into an extension of the repressive apparatus: doctors under the control of the security services fabricate politically motivated diagnoses (for example, the nonexistent "sluggish schizophrenia"), while closed institutions are used as prisons for the indefinite isolation and drug-induced torture of dissenters [1].
Techniques Applied
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| T0135 | Punitive Psychiatry | 1 |
| T0162.004 | Reprisals against Prisoners and Detainees: Torture and Abuse | 1 |
Actors
Campaigns Conducted
| ID | Name | Start | End | Procedures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C0089 | The "General Pogrom" of Human Rights Defenders and Punitive Psychiatry (1972–1985) | January 1972 | December 1985 | 2 |
Procedures Carried Out
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].
Administration of destructive pharmaceutical drugs (neuroleptics) as a means of physical and psychological pressure on healthy human rights defenders in closed institutions[1].