The Soviets withdrew from the world organization in 1983 to avoid almost certain expulsion because of widespread charges of psychiatric abuse.

Amnesty International raised particular concerns over reports of torture, illegal imprisonment including forced labor, and psychiatric abuses.

Instances of psychiatric abuse of conscripts who refused national service have also been recorded.

In Romania, there have been allegations of some particular cases of psychiatric abuse during over a decade.

At the same time, he said, people unable to work because of drug or alcohol abuse, psychiatric and other ills are scheduled for treatment.

She has written on psychiatric abuse in the Soviet Union.

And the doctors who defined the terms of psychiatric abuse are still in power.

He said that in one study, 38 percent of those held were found to have suffered psychiatric abuse in detention.

It said all political patients had been released and that new legislation had been passed to prevent psychiatric abuses.

During the 1970s, the anti-psychiatry movement was involved in promoting restraint from many practices seen as psychiatric abuses.