Page "Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union" Paragraph 15

After the joint session of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences on 28 June — 4 July 1950 and during the session of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Board of the All-Union Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists on 11 – 15 October 1951, the leading role was given to Snezhnevky's school.

The 1950 decision to give monopoly over psychiatry to the Pavlovian school of Snezhnevsky was one of the crucial factors in the rise of political psychiatry.

The Soviet doctors, under the incentive of Sneznevsky, devised a " Pavlovian theory of schizophrenia " and increasingly applied this diagnostic category to political dissidents.