Sluggishly progressing schizophrenia
- Sluggishly progressing schizophrenia
Sluggishly progressing schizophrenia or sluggish schizophrenia was a category of schizophrenia diagnosed by psychiatrists in the Soviet Union. At the time, Western psychiatry recognized only four types of schizophrenia: catatonic, hebephrenic, paranoid, and simple. The diagnostic criteria for this fifth category were so vague that it could be applied to virtually any person not suffering from mental function impairment and having interests beyond survival needs. The diagnosis was sometimes applied to dissidents who were not in fact mentally ill, so that they could be forcibly hospitalized in mental institutions and subjected to treatments including powerful antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy.
See also:
*Andrei Snezhnevsky, a major Soviet psychiatrist who created the concept of sluggish schizophrenia
References
External links
* [http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/BUK/GBARC/buk.html Soviet archives, collected by Vladimir Bukovsky.]
* [http://www.vehi.net/samizdat/bukovsky.html "And the Wind Returns"] , 1978 ("И возвращается ветер", in Russian)
* [http://www.hro.org/editions/karta/nr22-23/ig3.htm#plush| Leonard Ternovsky. (Леонард Терновский): Леонид Плющ] . In the book:"ТАЙНА ИГ" (in Russian).
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See also
*Psikhushka
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