Soviet psychiatry
Sir.—ln a country where the memory of Michael Watene's tragic death is still vividly fresh in people's memories, and the recently published Oakley Hospital Commission's report is far from flattering to that institution, it ill becomes your paper, in a sub-leader (February 14) to take Soviet psychiatry to task for alleged abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. No such charges have ever been substantiated, either by the World Psychiatry Association or Amnesty International. At the 6th' World Congress of Psychiatry. Hono-
lulu. 1977. the Australian-New Zealand resolution, transparently aimed at the Soviet Union, was supported by only 19 countries and opposed by 33. but because of the undemocratic apportioning of votes among member countries, the 19 commanded 90 votes, the 33 only 88 votes. By withdrawing from the World Psychiatry Association, a body deeply compromised by its involvement in cold war politics, the Soviet Union is doing itself a service.—Yours, -etc., M. CREEL. February 14, 1983.
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