Friday, January 31, 2025

Kostroma Renames Hospital for Inventor of Soviet-Era Punitive Psychiatry’s Concept of ‘Sluggish Schizophrenia’

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Jan. 28 – The oblast psychiatric hospital has been renamed for Andrey Snezhnevsky, the founder of Soviet-style punitive psychiatry and the inventor of the notorious term, ‘sluggish schizophrenia,’ that was never accepted by psychiatrists in other countries but was used by Moscow against dissidents in the last decades of Soviet power.  
    Snezhnevsky began his career in Kostroma but in 1938 he moved to Moscow where he established the Soviet school of psychiatry. He eventually served as head of the Institute of Psychiatry of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (t.me/akalitin/905 reposted at kasparov.ru/material.php?id=6797350C8DCEF).
    This horrific move is entirely appropriate at a time when Putin is expanding the use of punitive psychiatry across Russia and is doing so in particular outside of Moscow to avoid attracting Western attention. (On that, see jamestown.org/program/putin-expands-use-of-soviet-style-punitive-psychiatry-across-russia/ as translated into Russian at  region.expert/psychiatry/).

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