Self, Community and State. The Case of Larisa Arap
Self, Community and State. The Case of Larisa Arap

Summary/Abstract: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union different authorities wanted to make the public believe that the problem of, what we call a systematic political abuse of psychiatry in Russia, was solved. According to the most recent reports of last 10 years on particular cases (Platon Obukhov, Yuri Budanov, Tamara Rakevich1), such a misuse of psychiatry – as wrongful examinations, involuntary treatment and other psychiatric persecutions – is still taking place. It makes us reflect on the mutual relations between an individual and the state, the role of the community – or communities – in this process as well as the condition of psychiatry itself. Isn’t its aim to protect the state rather than to treat the sick? The case of Larisa Arap depicts the thesis.

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