title: [Awareness of the political abuse of psychiatry in relation to psychiatry and the law].
abstract: The political abuse of psychiatry in the former USSR was enabled by: 1. a disproportionate pointing up of the medical criteria of mental disorder to the detriment of the social ones, above all by circumventing the sociological labelling process; 2. lack of control of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation by the law; 3. an obsolete definition of psychiatry. The author suggests a definition of psychiatry taking into consideration both the above mentioned criteria and making the importance of the legal control of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation more evident.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrická lécebna Praha.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kalvach
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003148:Communism / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Na co upozornilo politické zneuzívání psychiatrie ve vztahu psychiatrie a práva.