Andrei Snezhnevsky

Andrei Snezhnevsky

Andrey Snezhnevsky ( _ru. Андрей Владимирович Снежневский) (1904-1987) was a Soviet psychiatrist notorious for expanding the diagnosic criteria for schizophrenia, a step that allowed for arbitrary labeling of political dissidents as having sluggishly progressing schizophrenia. Despite being associated with the authoritarian politics of using the psychiatry in USSR as a system of oppression, Snezhnevsky today is still respected by many Russian psychiatrists for his theoretical work.

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* [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,922041,00.html Children of Pavlov] - Time, 1980
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DD1F38F933A05752C0A965948260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=print The world of Soviet psychiatry] - The New York Times, 1983


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