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The Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse
FormationApril 1975
FounderViktor Fainberg
Dissolved1988
TypeNon-profit
ngo
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Fieldspsychiatry
director
Viktor Fainberg
chair
Henry Dicks

Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse was a group that was founded by Soviet dissident Viktor Fainberg[1] in April 1975 and participated in the struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union from 1975 to 1988.[2]

The Campaign involved national and international medical bodies[3] to reveal the monstrous abuse of human rights through the misuse of psychiatry.[4]

  1. ^ Makeyeva 2013; Mosby 1977; Thorne (1977a, 1977b)
  2. ^ Cook 2012, p. 203.
  3. ^ McCleskey 1985, p. 31.
  4. ^ Janner 1977.

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