Publisher's Synopsis
Based on personal access to the Soviet hospital system, this book is a controversial assessment of contemporary Soviet psychiatry written by the editor of "Psychology News" and author of "Forgotten Millions" and "Disaster Psychology". The USSR is the most psychiatry-conscious country on earth. It has 25,000 psychiatrists and two per cent of the population is under their watchful eye. Despite "perestroika" there is still a backlog of perhaps 150 people in hospitals, who, to the West, are political prisoners, and to the East are mad.
