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- Title
Playing "musical chairs" with the WPA.
- Authors
Van Voren, Robert; Donskis, Leonidas
- Abstract
The article focuses on the involvement of the author in an association of national committees against the political abuse of psychiatry which focused its activities completely on the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). The goal of the campaign was to convince the umbrella organization that the Soviets violated the Honolulu Declaration, in which the use of psychiatry for non-medical purposes had been outlawed.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; PSYCHIATRY laws; BEHAVIORAL medicine; PSYCHIATRISTS; SOCIETIES
- Publication
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom & Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 2009, Vol 17, p61
- ISSN
1570-7121
- Publication type
Article