On dissidents and madness : from the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Dutch |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2009
Amsterdam ; New York : 2009 |
| Series: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
17 On the boundary of two worlds 17 |
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| Summary: | "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."--Back cover "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."--Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Includes index "This book is an extended version of the Dutch edition Levenslang; tussen dissidenten en waanzin ... published by Gottmer Uitgeverij, Haarlem, in April 2009."--T.p. verso |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xiii, 296 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9042025840 (hbk.) 9042025840 9042025859 (pbk.) 9789042025844 (hbk.) 9789042025844 9789042025851 (pbk.) |