Andrei Snezhnevsky

Andrei Snezhnevsky
Born
Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky

20 May [O.S. 7 May] 1904
Kostroma, Russian Empire
Died12 July 1987(1987-07-12) (aged 83)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Citizenship
Alma materKazan Federal University
Known forhis active participation in Pavlovian session, political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union by developing and applying the diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia to political dissidents; no less active participation in persistent counteractions to stop struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union by attributing the struggle to the Cold War against the USSR at the Congresses of the World Psychiatric Association
Awardsthe title of a Hero of Socialist Labour, two Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Star, the USSR State Prize
Scientific career
Fieldsforensic psychiatry and clinical psychiatry
InstitutionsSerbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, All-Union Mental Health Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

Andrei Snezhnevsky (Russian: Андре́й Влади́мирович Снежне́вский, IPA: [sʲnʲɪˈʐnʲefskʲɪj]; 20 May [O.S. 7 May] 1904 – 12 July 1987) was a Soviet psychiatrist whose name was lent to the unbridled broadening of the diagnostic borders of schizophrenia in the Soviet Union,[1] the key architect of the Soviet concept of sluggish schizophrenia,[2] the inventor of the term "sluggish schizophrenia",[3] an embodier of history of repressive psychiatry, and a direct participant in psychiatric repression against dissidents.[4]

He was an academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences,[5]: 221  the director of the Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry (1950–1951),[5]: 221  the director of the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1962–1987),[5]: 220  and the director of the All-Union Mental Health Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1982–1987).

  1. ^ Nuller, Yuri (2008). Структура психических расстройств [The Structure of Mental Disorders] (PDF) (in Russian). Kyiv: Сфера. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-966-8782-44-2.
  2. ^ Probes, Lawrence; Kouznetsov, Vladimir; Verbitski, Vladimir; Molodyi, Vadim (June 1992). "Trends in Soviet and Post-Soviet Psychiatry" (PDF). The PSR Quarterly. 2 (2): 67–76. ISSN 1051-2438.
  3. ^ Korolenko, Caesar; Kensin, Dennis (2002). "Reflections on the past and present state of Russian psychiatry". Anthropology & Medicine. 9 (1): 51–64. doi:10.1080/13648470220130017. PMID 26953493. S2CID 34122656.
  4. ^ Gluzman, Semyon (2013). Снежневский [Snezhnevsky]. Вестник Ассоциации психиатров Украины [The Herald of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association] (in Russian) (6). The Ukrainian Psychiatric Association: 79–80.
  5. ^ a b c Bloch, Sidney; Reddaway, Peter (1977). Russia's political hospitals: The abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN 0-575-02318-X.