Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry (Russian: Центр социальной и судебной психиатрии им. В.П.Сербского) is a psychiatric hospital and the main center for the forensic psychiatry of the Soviet Union and Russia. The hospital got a lot of negative publicity because many Soviet dissidents were incarcerated and tortured there.
The Institute was organized in 1921. The institute is named after Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Serbsk...
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Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry (Russian: Центр социальной и судебной психиатрии им. В.П.Сербского) is a psychiatric hospital and the main center for the forensic psychiatry of the Soviet Union and Russia. The hospital got a lot of negative publicity because many Soviet dissidents were incarcerated and tortured there.
The Institute was organized in 1921. The institute is named after Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Serbsky. One of the main stated purpose of the institute is forensic psychiatry for the criminal courts. Moscow Serbsky Institute conducts more than 2,500 court-ordered evaluations per year .
The Institute also claimed leadership in studying different types of psychosis, brain trauma, alcoholism and drug addiction. Among the celebrities treated there of addictions was Vladimir Vysotsky . The current director of the Institute is Tatyana Dmitrieva
In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons in order to...
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