Hospitals, Psychiatric
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Mike Gorman to Phillip L. Sirotkin, National Institute of Mental Health
US/USSR Psychiatry Delegation Records
Correspondence, reports, drafts, psychological testing instruments, subject files, and audio and video recordings which document a 1989 joint NIMH/U.S. State Department delegation visit to the Soviet Union to assess the state of Soviet psychiatry. The delegation focused on the diagnosis status, treatment, and human rights protections given to political and religious dissidents who had been involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospitals.