Anatoly Koryagin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Koryagin.

Anatoly Ivanovich Koryagin
Анатолий Иванович Корягин
Koryagin at the Sakharov Congress in Amsterdam on 22 May 1987
Born (1938-09-15) 15 September 1938 (age 86)
Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Citizenship Soviet Union (1938–1991)→ Russia (1991–present)
Alma materthe Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute
Occupation(s)psychiatrist, human rights activist
Known forhis participation in the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Awardshonorary membership of the World Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Association, fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Scientific career
Institutionsthe Kyzyl regional psychiatric hospital, the Kharkiv regional psychiatric hospital, the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes

Anatoly Ivanovich Koryagin (Russian: Анато́лий Ива́нович Коря́гин, born 15 September 1938, Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai[1]: 111 ) is a psychiatrist[2] and Soviet dissident. He holds a Candidate of Science degree (equivalent to PhD in the West).[3] Along with others, he exposed political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.[4] He pointed out Russia constructed psychiatric prisons to punish dissidents.[5]

  1. ^ Voren, Robert van (1987). Koryagin: a man struggling for human dignity. Amsterdam: Second World Press. ISBN 90-71271-07-2.
  2. ^ Gershman, Carl (July–August 1984). "Psychiatric abuse in the Soviet Union". Society. 21 (5): 54–59. doi:10.1007/BF02695434. PMID 11615169. S2CID 7447915.
  3. ^ "An appeal for Dr Anatoly Koryagin to the medical profession". Psychiatric Bulletin. 9 (12): 244. 1 December 1985. doi:10.1192/pb.9.12.244.
  4. ^ Corillon, Carol (November 1989). "The role of science and scientists in human rights". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 506 (1): 129–140. doi:10.1177/0002716289506001012. JSTOR 1046660. S2CID 145803216.
  5. ^ Beck, Julie (12 December 2014). "'Do no harm': when doctors torture". The Atlantic.