On Dissidents and Madness: From the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir PutinRodopi, 2009 - Всего страниц: 296 The book contains the memoirs of Robert van Voren covering the period 1977-2008 and provides unique insights into the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, both inside the country and abroad. As a result of his close friendship with many of the leading dissidents and his dozens of trips to the USSR as a courier, he had intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of the dissident movement and participated in many of the campaigns to obtain the release of Soviet political prisoners. In the late 1980s he became involved in building a humane and ethical practice of psychiatry in Eastern Europe and the (ex-) USSR, based on respect for the human rights of persons with mental illness. The book describes the dissident movement and many of the people who formed it, mental health reformers in Eastern Europe and the response of the Western psychiatric community, the battle with the World Psychiatric Association over Soviet, and later, Chinese political abuse of psychiatry, his contacts with former KGB officers and problems with the KGB's successor organization, the FSB. It also vividly describes the emotional effects of serving as a courier for the dissident movement, the fear of arrest, the pain of seeing friends disappear for many years into camps and prisons, sometimes never to return. |
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Campaigning for dissidents | 41 |
Demonstrating in Poland | 55 |
Playing musical chairs with the | 61 |
The Soviet Union in 1985 | 69 |
Sleeping behind my desk | 73 |
Change of course in Bratislava | 177 |
From black and white to shades of grey | 187 |
From humanitarian aid to structural aid | 201 |
Romance with the WPA | 217 |
New style abuse | 223 |
A successful failure | 231 |
Renewed struggle with the WPA | 239 |
Into prison | 255 |
Intermission and back to work | 91 |
The gorillas of Sakharov | 101 |
The mouse and the elephant | 111 |
Playing chess in Athens | 123 |
The Soviet Union in 1990 | 135 |
The Romanian marsh | 167 |
Becoming Lithuanian | 265 |
Reforming against the wind | 275 |
Looking back | 281 |
Historical Data | 289 |
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