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Start Over Collection Loren Roth papers, 1950/2022, bulk 1974/2022 Date range 1981

Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists, 1950/2021, bulk 1974/2000 12.5 Linear Feet 24 boxes

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.

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  2. Loren Roth papers, 1950/2022, bulk 1974/2022

Annotated articles, 1981/1991 MSS 2021-01, Box 23, Folder 14

Gershman, Carl: Psychiatric Abuse in the Soviet Union," Society, July/August 1984; Lapenna, Ivo: "The Medico-Legal Society. Use and Misuse of Psychiatry in the USSR," The Royal Society of Medicine, London 12th June 1986; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: "Compliance by physicians with the 1978 Ontario Mental Health Act," Reprint from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 124, March 15, 1981; McCready, John and Harold Merskey: "On the Recoding of Mental Illness for Civil Commitment," Can. J. Psychiatry Vol. 27, March 1982; Slovenko, Ralph: Analysis. The Destiny of South Africa," The World and I, July 1991.

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  2. Loren Roth papers, 1950/2022, bulk 1974/2022
  3. Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists, 1950/2021, bulk 1974/2000
  4. Miscellaneous files, 1950/2021

[Critique of the abuse of psychiatry in the U.S.S.R. and around the world], 1980/1990 MSS 2021-01, Box 1, Folder 1

World Psychiatric Association Proposed Declaration of Hawaii; "Honolulu Paper": Somerville, John: "Ethics and Psychiatry," (1977); Committee of French Psychiatrists Against The Political Uses of Psychiatry Special Bulletin, the World Congress of Psychiatry in Hawaii; newspaper clippings from Hawaiian newspapers (1977). APA white paper: "Misuse and Abuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.: A definition and Discussion," (1991); correspondence and papers of Paul Chodoff, (1989-1990 and undated); Helmchen, H. and A. Okasha: "From the Hawaii Declaration to the Declaration of Madrid," Acta Psychiatr Scand 200:101: 2023

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  2. Loren Roth papers, 1950/2022, bulk 1974/2022
  3. Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists, 1950/2021, bulk 1974/2000
  4. General documents related to the abuse of psychiatry, 1974/2000

Dissident cases, 1974/1989 MSS 2021-01, Box 1, Folder 2

Copy of the Report to the Board of Trustees, American Psychiatric Association of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Psychiatric Institutions for the Commitment of Political Dissenters (1972); Boekovski Berichten Bukovsky News: The Case of Irina Grivnina (1985?); Statement of Dr. Algirdas Statkevicius to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1988); copy of letter from Peter Reddaway to Viktor Nakas, Leon Stern, Robert van Voren and Algirdas Statkevicius (1989); copy of translation of SB case (1987-1989); U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee [memorandum] re Shatravka Family (1988); Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc "Call for Action for Three Soviet Former Prisoners of Conscience," (1988); and newspaper clippings mainly of Pyotr G. Grigorenko and Anatoly Koryagin

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Loren Roth papers, 1950/2022, bulk 1974/2022
  3. Abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists, 1950/2021, bulk 1974/2000
  4. General documents related to the abuse of psychiatry, 1974/2000

Loren Roth papers, 1950/2022, bulk 1974/2022 12.75 Cubic Feet 25 boxes 138.5775 Gigabytes

Roth, Loren H.

This collection is divided into two series. The first series, "abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists", consists of subject files compiled by Dr. Loren Roth, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. They are evidence of Dr. Roth's efforts to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. The subject files contain correspondence, articles, reports, evaluations, meeting minutes, agendas, planning materials, diaries, photographs, memoranda, handwritten notes, programs, books, videotapes, ephemera, and other items. Together, these materials date from around 1950 to 2008. However the bulk of them date from the 1970s to the 1990s, when Dr. Roth participated in U.S. delegations to the former Soviet Union and was part of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Committees on Human Rights and International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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