2016
DOI: 10.5708/ejmh.11.2016.1-2.4
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Mental Healthcare Reforms in Post-Soviet Russian Media: Negotiating New Ideas and Values

Abstract: After the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic principles began to enter into different branches of Russian social and health policy. As part of these changes, the country demonstrated an intention to develop a new mental health policy based on approaches consonant with the principles of the World Health Organization. This study analyses how these new policy ideas and values are reflected in the Russian mass media, and in particular whether media discourses build upon those ideas or oppose them. It is base… Show more

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“…Stigmatization of mental health care and widespread perception of people with psychosocial disabilities as unpredictable, aggressive and dangerous [20,21,19,22] resulted in shifting the role of psychiatry from politically authorized "guardian of ideology" to alleged "guardian of the society". Both roles require psychiatric institutions to control deviant behavior.…”
Section: Post-communist Psychiatrymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Stigmatization of mental health care and widespread perception of people with psychosocial disabilities as unpredictable, aggressive and dangerous [20,21,19,22] resulted in shifting the role of psychiatry from politically authorized "guardian of ideology" to alleged "guardian of the society". Both roles require psychiatric institutions to control deviant behavior.…”
Section: Post-communist Psychiatrymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, there is still a lack of mental health care service users' and caregivers' self-organized activity in the post-Communist countries [19,20,33,31]. Moreover, those movements are fragmented and demonstrate different approaches: Holand [32 p19] identifies the existence of two ‚somewhat separate subcultures within the disability NGO community in the region'.…”
Section: Rebirth Of Civil Activismmentioning
confidence: 99%