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Extract and Commentary from Gerard Crewdson
From the internet -Psychiatric Abuse of Dissidents,
AAAS Human Rights Network 3/11/05 re Elena Urlaeva "dissident back in psychiatric detention" describes Uzbekistan (ex Soviet state) use of psychiatry to repress dissident Elena Urlaeva and includes:
"The American Psychiatric Association (APA) Committee on International Abuse of Psychiatry defines the abuse and misuse of psychiatry as situations where "psychiatric knowledge assessment or practice is used to further morally illegitimate organisational special or political objectives"I think AAAS stands for American Academy for the Advancement of Science the article quoted from above has a very good format for setting out abuse of human rights notification which could be adopted as a templateThe APA Board of Trustees adopted a Statement on the Identification of Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in 1998 that states "Psychiatrists shall not detain or incarcerate persons for political reasons use medical knowledges for interrogation persuasion or torture or provide unsubstantiated diagnoses for use against political dissidents, whistleblowers or others" (GC's emphasis)
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