Semyon Gluzman

Semyon Fishelevich Gluzman
Born 10 September 1946(1946-09-10)
Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Citizenship  Ukraine
Nationality Ukrainian
Fields Psychiatry
Institutions Ukrainian Psychiatric Association
Alma mater Kiev Medical Institute
Known for Human rights activism

Semyon Fishelevich Gluzman (Ukrainian: Семе́н Фі́шельович Глу́зман, Russian: Семён Фи́шелевич Глу́зман) (September 10, 1946, Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Ukrainian psychiatrist, human rights activist,[1] the president[2] and founder of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association,[3] founder of the American-Ukrainian Bureau for Human Rights,[4] director of the International Medical Rehabilitation Center for the Victims of War and Totalitarian Regimes,[5] a member of the Council of Experts under the Ukraine's Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.[6] He also is сo-chairperson of the Babi Yar Committee, ex-dissident and ex-prisoner,[7] author of numerous interviews and scientific publications on issues of human rights, law and ethics in psychiatry, social psychiatry.

Semyon Gluzman was the first psychiatrist in the Soviet Union who openly opposed Soviet abuse of psychiatry against dissenters.[8] In 1971, Gluzman wrote a psychiatric report on General Pyotr Grigorenko[9] who spoke against the human rights abuses in the Soviet Union.[10] Gluzman came to the conclusion that Grigorenko was mentally sane and had been taken to mental hospitals for political reasons.[9] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Gluzman was forced to serve seven years in labor camp and three years in Siberian exile for refusing to diagnose Grigorenko as having the mental illness.[10]

In recognition of his courage and commitment to ethical psychiatry, Gluzman was given the title of a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association and the title of an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1980.[11]

In 2008, Semyon Gluzman was honored with the Geneva Prize for Human Rights in Psychiatry presented to him at the XIV Congress of the World Psychiatric Association in Prague for exceptional courage and adherence to ideals of humanism, for renunciation of using psychiatry against political dissidents as well as for dissemination of ethical principles during reform of psychiatric service in Ukraine.[12]

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  1. ^ Максименко Н (2007-09-22). "Семен Глузман: СНБО - абсолютно импотентный орган". УНIАН. http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-213310.html. Retrieved 2010-12-07. 
  2. ^ "Руководство Ассоциации психиатров Украины". Ассоциация психиатров Украины. http://upa-psychiatry.org.ua/rus/board-rus.html. Retrieved 25 July 2011. 
  3. ^ Neria, Yuval; Galea, Sandro (2009). Mental Health and Disasters. Cambridge University Press. pp. 451. ISBN 0521883873. http://books.google.ru/books?id=zrdZME6BjGcC&printsec=frontcover#PPA451,M1. 
  4. ^ van Voren, Robert (2009). On Dissidents and Madness: From the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin. Amsterdam—New York: Rodopi. pp. 159. ISBN 9789042025851. http://books.google.ru/books?id=tyDIKu8XsgcC&printsec=frontcover#PPA159,M1. 
  5. ^ "Онлайн-конференция c руководителем Ассоциации психиатров Украины Семеном Глузманом". http://www.ostro.org/conferences/conference-71628/. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 
  6. ^ Учотова, Ирина; Глузман, Семён (октябрь 2009). "Семён Глузман: "Смысл нашей работы заключается в том, чтобы помочь человеку жить полноценной жизнью…"". Нейроnews: Психоневрология и нейропсихиатрия (№ 6 (17)). http://neuro.health-ua.com/article/222.html. Retrieved 26 July 2011. 
  7. ^ Луканов, Юрий. "С бандеровцами мы ели на одной тумбочке". http://gazeta.ua/index.php?id=316549&lang=ru. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 
  8. ^ Landau, Eli (1980). Semyon Gluzman: the first psychiatrist in the U.S.S.R. who openly opposed Soviet abuse of psychiatry against dissenters. 
  9. ^ a b Medicine betrayed: the participation of doctors in human rights abuses. Zed Books. 1992. pp. 73. ISBN 1856491048. http://books.google.ru/books?id=bMTu_oIfVsIC&printsec=frontcover#PPA73,M1. 
  10. ^ a b Sabshin, Melvin (2008). Changing American psychiatry: a personal perspective. American Psychiatric Pub. pp. 95. ISBN 1585623075. http://books.google.ru/books?id=fgCUrffGCfcC&printsec=frontcover#PPA95,M1. 
  11. ^ Bloch, Sidney (1990). "Athens and beyond: Soviet psychiatric abuse and the World Psychiatric Association". Psychiatric Bulletin 14 (3): 129–133. doi:10.1192/pb.14.3.12. http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/14/3/129.pdf. Retrieved 6 February 2011. 
  12. ^ "XIV Всемирный конгресс по психиатрии". Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal (№ 4): 86–88. 2008. http://www.npar.ru/journal/2008/4/19-congress.htm. 

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