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Report of Trip of U.S. Psychiatrists and Other Experts to the Soviet Union, Feb. 22 - March 12, 1989 – correspondence, memoranda, commentaries, Roth’s notes re writing the report, 1982-02-22 - 1989-03-12

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Scope and Contents Richard J. Bonnie draft; “Legal and Humanitarian Aspects of Soviet Psychiatry: Some Preliminary Conclusions" (1989-03-28); also comments on Klein’s and Reddaway reports (1989-04 to 1989-05); LHR Confidential Drafts #1-5 (1989-05-19-31); Objectives of the Clinical Interviews (1989-05-22); Dr. Harold M. Visotsky Response to Joel Kline (1989-05-30); Hospital Team Report by Harold Visotsky, Elmore Rigamer, and Loren H. Roth (1989-05-30); remarks from Joe Bloom (1989-06-05); Richard Bonnie: Note...
Dates: 1982-02-22 - 1989-03-12
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection / Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists / Post-trip analysis of the delegation to the U.S.S.R.

[Final Report] – “An Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry: Report of the U.S. Delegation,” “Inspection Draft, June 9, 1989”

 File — Container: MSS 2021-01, Box 8, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of subject files that Dr. Loren Henry Roth assembled and used while working to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, emphasizing abuse in the former Soviet Union. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting documents, articles, reports, lists, forms, evaluations, photographs, diaries, and other materials.

Dates: 1989 - 2021
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection / Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists / Post-trip analysis of the delegation to the U.S.S.R.

Final Report – “An Assessment of Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry: Report of the U.S. Delegation to [William Schifter] Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, U.S. Department of State, July 12, 1989; correspondence re the report, 1989-06 - 1989-09

 File — Container: MSS 2021-01, Box 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of subject files that Dr. Loren Henry Roth assembled and used while working to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, emphasizing abuse in the former Soviet Union. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting documents, articles, reports, lists, forms, evaluations, photographs, diaries, and other materials.

Dates: 1989-06 - 1989-09
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection / Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists / Post-trip analysis of the delegation to the U.S.S.R.

Memorandum re Dr. Roth’s and Bill Farrand’s Follow-up Visit to the U.S.S.R. on June 14-17, 1989 to meet with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Soviet psychiatrists about the report, 1989-06

 File — Container: MSS 2021-01, Box 8, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of subject files that Dr. Loren Henry Roth assembled and used while working to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, emphasizing abuse in the former Soviet Union. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, meeting documents, articles, reports, lists, forms, evaluations, photographs, diaries, and other materials.

Dates: 1989-06
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection / Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists / Post-trip analysis of the delegation to the U.S.S.R.

Soviet Response to the Report – “Preliminary Soviet Response to Report of the U.S. Delegation to Assess Recent Changes in Soviet Psychiatry,” signed by S[vetlana] V. Polubinskaya, Staff Member of the Institute of State and Law of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and S. V. Borodin, Leading Staff Member of the Institute of State and Law of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Professor (1989-06-28), document in English and Russian, 1989-06-28

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Scope and Contents Also: State Department “rough translation” of Soviet response: “Response to the medical part of the report by the U.S. delegation of psychiatrists and lawyers,” (1989-07-06); Draft translation of the final Soviet comments on the report: Commentary on the Report [130008 JS/AO Russian] (1989-09-26); U.S. Department of State Memorandum re Comments on the Soviet response to the Report (1989-10-12); printed Russian document inscribed by Polubinskaya to Loren H. Roth: [Academy of Sciences of the...
Dates: 1989-06-28
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection / Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists / Post-trip analysis of the delegation to the U.S.S.R.

Soviet Readmission to the World Psychiatry Association [WPA] – background materials, correspondence, news clippings, 1989 - 1990

 File — Container: MSS 2021-01, Box 8, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Resolution of the WPA (1989-10-17); WPA Statement by the All Union Society of Soviet Psychiatrists and Narcologists of the U.S.S.R. before the World Psychiatric Association General Assembly in Athens (1989-10-18); Memorandum re: Site Visit by the WPA Review Committee to the U.S.S.R. (1990-03-13); Reddaway, Peter: The Struggle over Reform in Soviet Psychiatry Intensifies: Is the Establishment Beginning to Panic? (1990-04-30); Remarks by Svetlana Poloubinskaya at the APA’s Committee of...
Dates: 1989 - 1990
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Loren Roth and the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists collection / Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists / Post-trip analysis of the delegation to the U.S.S.R.