On 13 Aug 2002 at 16:28, Hermit wrote:
>
> My response was based on an article in Dallas Morning Post in 1981/2.
> The gist of it was that the USSR had been severely criticized for the
> abuse of psychotherapy, having applied it to political dissidents.
> Their response was to pass laws/regulations which made it illegal to
> provide psychotherapy to prisoners unless there was a medical
> condition requiring treatment and mandating that a number of Doctors
> (two?) had to certify that psychotherapy was indicated before any
> prisoner could be treated. The article accused the USSR of using this
> law to deny treatment to prisoners who required psychotherapy. I did a
> few searches, but their archives seem not to go back that far.
>
> Hopefully research at HRW or Amnesty International will turn something
> up, but I don't have the time right now.
>
I'm quite sure that the communist soviet regimes between then and the
soviet breakup would have had no trouble persuading all the doctors
they wished to sign on so they could commit pesky dissidents.
>
> Hermit.
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