Andrei Snezhnevsky

Who was Andrei Snezhnevsky?

Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky was a Soviet psychiatrist whose name was lent to the unbridled broadening of the diagnostic borders of schizophrenia in the Soviet Union, the key architect of the Soviet concept of sluggish schizophrenia, the inventor of the term "sluggish schizophrenia," an embodier of history of repressive psychiatry, a direct participant in psychiatric repression against dissidents. He was an academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, the director of the Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry, the director of the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, and the director of the All-Union Mental Health Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.