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Sasha Shapiro is a recent Philosophy and Russian Studies graduate from Dickinson College with a particular interest in Russian healthcare and human rights. She will pursue her Ph.D in Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Virginia in 2016

Civil Society, Demographics, Health, Vestnik 4 April 2016

“Medicine Standing on its Head”: Snezhnevsky, Sluggish Schizophrenia and Soviet Political Abuse of Psychiatry

In this essay, I analyze political abuses of psychiatry in the Soviet Union by exploring Andrei Snezhnevsky’s diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia—a fictional branch of schizophrenia….