Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia

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The Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
Независимая психиатрическая ассоциация России
Purposehuman rights monitoring, struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in Russia
HeadquartersRoom 5a, doorway 3, building 4, Luchnikov lane, Moscow
Russian Federation
Fieldspsychiatry
Membership
about 600
1990–present President
Yuri Savenko, M.D.
PublicationNezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal
Websitenpar.ru
Psychiatry in Russia and the USSR

The Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia (IPA) (

transinstitutionalization of those with mental illness.[5]
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History

The IPA was established in Moscow in March 1989

punitive psychiatry.[12] The IPA appears to make very active efforts to communicate their views on the previous and present abuses of psychiatry in Russia to psychiatry in the West.[13]

Structure

In 2010, the IPA has about 600 members in 54 regions of

University of California at Irvine[17]) and Yuri Savenko being members of the Steering Committee of International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry.[18]

The IPA leadership

The President of the IPA is Yuri Savenko, the Executive Director is Lyubov Vinogradova, the Chief of the legal service is Julia Argunova.[19]

Publication

The official publication of the IPA is

peer-reviewed journals and publications.[19]

Estimations

Noted public figures and scientists expressed their appreciation for the IPA activities. In 2004, the President of the World Psychiatric Association Professor Ahmed Okasha wrote: “The World Psychiatric Association has strengthened due to the membership of your Society.”[21] Three years later, his successor as the WPA President, Professor Juan Mezzich, noted that the WPA representatives highly appreciated the IPA successes in clinical psychiatry as well as ethical and humanitarian aspirations demonstrated by the IPA despite many difficulties it had to face.[22]

According to A.I. Appenyansky, the Chief Academic Secretary of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists (RSP), the RSP appreciates the IPA role in developing psychiatric care in the country. A.I. Appenyansky noted that the IPA became a very reputable professional public organization providing pluralism for professional discussion in psychiatry and that it was promoted due to, in particular, publishing very important and interesting periodical Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal as well as contributions of noted representatives of the psychiatric community such as Savenko, Vinogradova, Argunova, Gofman, Boukhanovsky, Piven, and others.[22]

Resisting the use of psychiatry against religious minorities

In 2006, Yuri Savenko stated that a first large relapse of the use of psychiatry for political purposes in post-Soviet Russia during recent decade was struggle against ‘totalitarian sects.’[23] According to Yuri Savenko, the reason for the use of psychiatry against religious minorities, which began from 1995, was professor Y.I. Polishchuk’s report containing conclusion about ‘gross harm on mental health’ inflicted by different religious organizations.[9] This report was distributed to all public prosecutors’ offices of the country and the presidents of the educational institutions despite the fact that its scientific inadequacy was emphasized by not only the IPA, but the Russian Society of Psychiatrists since all imputed cases of illness, suicide, family breakdown, etc. proved to be much more frequent in the general population than in the persecuted religious organizations.[9]

In 1999, the IPA expressed its concern about the facts of the use of psychiatry against religious minorities in the IPA Open Letter to the General Assembly of XI Congress of the WPA.[24] Stressing all the responsibility taken by the authors of the letter for the action involved in their statement, they noted in it that they considered it necessary to draw the WPA General Assembly’s attention to the recurrent use of psychiatry for non-medical purposes, which was recommenced in Russia from 1994–1995, was subsequently going on a large-scale without slackening and was aimed at suppressing not political dissenters but already religious dissenters.[24] This letter was concluded with the proposal, which was addressed to the WPA, to adopt the text of statement containing words of the WPA’s concern about initiating numerous lawsuits against various religious organizations in Russia for allegedly 'inflicting by them gross harm on mental health and for unhealthy changes of personality' and to express in the statement the WPA’s solidarity with the position of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia and the Russian Society of Psychiatrists as to the inadmissibility of involving psychiatrists in issues straining their professional competence.[24]

IPA attitude to homosexuality

In 2005, Savenko as the president of the IPA expressed their joint surprise at the proposal by the

denationalization of mental health service (by 80% in the USA), ie, the absence of two of the three factors that played a crucial role in Soviet abuses of psychiatry, does not protect against inherently antipsychiatric actions."[25] In 2014, Savenko changed his mind about homosexuality, and he and Perekhov in their joint paper criticized and referred the trend to consider homosexuality as a mental disorder to Soviet mentality that has endured into the present day.[26]

Advocacy of eugenics

The president of the IPA, Yuri Savenko, justifies forced sterilization of women, which is practiced in Moscow psychoneurological nursing homes, and states that “one needs a more strictly adjusted and open control for the practice of preventive eugenics, which, in itself, is, in its turn, justifiable.”[27]

Forcing restrictions on patients’ rights

In 2012, the Independent Psychiatric Association published a paper by its former legal consultant, who in the paper proposed amendments to the Law on Fundamentals of Protection of Public Health in the Russian Federation to legalize involuntary dispensary supervision over persons with mental disorders without their informed consent and court judgment having been taken.

Russian Mental Health Law always leads to legally meaningful consequences for them, such as restrictions on their right to performing specific types of professional occupation and that related to a source of an increased danger.[3] In his other paper, the former legal consultant of the IPA insists that the right to daily walks should be added to the list of patients' rights that may be restricted on the recommendation of the attending doctor or the head doctor in the interests of health or safety of patients and others.[4]

Forcing transinstitutionalization

Lyubov Vinogradova of the IPA states that many regions have a catastrophic shortage of places in psychoneurological

transinstitutionalization—relocating the mentally ill from their homes and psychiatric hospitals to psychoneurological internats.[5]
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Funding

In 2013 and 2014, the IPA has been working by using a grant from

President of the Russian Federation.[28]

Reports

The organization cooperated with a number of other

NGOs to compose a highly critical report about rising rates of mental disease and the deteriorating system of mental health care.[29]: 294  In the report, authors blamed ‘chronic underfunding of psychiatric care, corruption, and poverty’ and pointed an accusing finger at the psychiatric leadership.[29]
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  28. ^ "Очередные семинары по правовым вопросам для психиатров trans" [Regular seminars on legal issues for psychiatrists] (in Russian). Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia. 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
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