Semen Hlusman

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Семе́н Фі́шельович Глу́зман
Transl. : Semen Fišel'ovyč Hluzman
Transcr. : Semen Fischelowytsch Hlusman
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Семён Фи́шелевич Глу́зман
Transl .: Semën Fišelevič Gluzman
Transcr .: Semyon Fischelewitsch Glusman
Semen Hlusman 2012

Semen Fischelowytsch Hlusman (born September 10, 1946 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist as well as a Soviet dissident . He is the Executive Secretary of the Association of Psychiatrists of Ukraine, Director of the Ukrainian-American Bureau for the Protection of Human Rights, and Director of the International Medical Rehabilitation Center for Victims of War and Totalitarian Regimes.

Life

Hlusman came from a Jewish family, but never felt himself to be a Zionist and later repeatedly refused the Soviet authorities' offer to travel to Israel. Between 1968 and 1970 he studied psychiatry at the Kiev Medical Institute. In 1971, Hlusman prepared a psychiatric report on Major General and dissident Pyotr Grigorenko , in which he concluded that Grigorenko was sane and was imprisoned in mental institutions for political reasons.

In May 1972 the KGB arrested him for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda". Im was accused of disseminating false information about human rights abuses in the USSR, including the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes , by distributing samizdat and tamizdat , the main reason being his refusal to diagnose Grigorenko with a mental illness. He was sentenced to seven years in a labor camp and three years in Siberian exile . During his stay in the camp, he continued his scientific and journalistic activities. In particular, he was the co-author of Vladimir Bukowski 's Psychiatric Handbook for Dissidents .

He is also the author of numerous scientific publications on human rights, ethics, social psychiatry and law in psychiatry. In absentia he was elected a member of the international PEN Club. His poems and prose have been published in Russian, Ukrainian, English and French.

Honors

  • 1977 The psychiatric hospital in Saint-Denis, France was officially named after Semen Hlusman.
  • 1998 laureate of the European Union - United States "for the development of democracy and civil society"
  • 1999 Winner of the national program "Person of the Year" in the category "Human Rights Defender of the Year"
  • 2001 winner of the American Psychiatric Association's "Protection of Human Rights" award for outstanding contributions to the organization of human rights and mental health in the world

Web links

Commons : Semen Hlusman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Tabular curriculum vitae of Semen Hlusman ( memento of the original from March 16, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association; accessed on March 6, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / upa-psychiatry.org.ua
  2. ^ Semyon Gluzman: Meeting a Soviet-era dissident again after 35 years. BBC News, February 26, 2017, accessed February 26, 2017 .
  3. ^ Medicine Betrayed: The Participation of Doctors in Human Rights Abuses, page 73 , accessed March 6, 2016
  4. ↑ EXTENDED FORENSIC-PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION OF CORRESPONDENCE IN THE CASE OF PETER G. GRIGORENKO ; accessed on March 6, 2016
  5. ^ Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective, page 95 ; accessed on March 6, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hlusman, Semen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Глу́зман, Семе́н Фі́шельович (Ukrainian); Hlusman, Semen Fischelowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist and Soviet dissident
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic