- On the Misuse of Psychiatry: In an open letter regarding political abuse in the USSR, Gluzman stated, "For a healthy person there is no fate more terrible than indefinite internment in a mental hospital. I believe that you will not remain indifferent to this problem...".
- On the Reality of Soviet Psychiatry: He described political abuse as the "tip of the iceberg" of a larger, systemic issue, stating, "Political cases of abuse are just the epiphenomenon. They are, in a sense, incidental to the basic psychiatric paradigm of the totalitarian state".
- On the Corruption of the Profession: In a 2010 interview, he noted that while official doctrine encouraged the incarceration of dissidents, many ordinary psychiatrists did not believe they were insane.
- On Moral Responsibility: Reflecting on lasting authoritarian impacts, he said, "Enlightenment cannot in one day destroy the totalitarian myths. That is why, in the minds of many of my post-Soviet compatriots, Stalin is still alive".
Semyon Gluzman | |
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| Семeн Глузман | |
 Gluzman in 2012 | |
| Born | 10 September 1946 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 16 February 2026 (aged 79) |
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| Alma mater | Kyiv Medical Institute |
| Known for | Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Institutions | Ukrainian Psychiatric Association |
Life and career
Gluzman was born in Kyiv on 10 September 1946 to a close-knit Jewish family.[10] His father was doctor of medical sciences Fischel Gluzman (1904–1987). In 1968, he graduated from the Kyiv Medical Institute.[11] After graduation, Gluzman started working in Ukrainian psychiatric hospitals and was offered a position at the Dnipropetrovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital in a city not far from the Black Sea.[12]
He was the first psychiatrist in the Soviet Union to openly oppose Soviet abuse of psychiatry against dissenters.[13] In 1971, Gluzman wrote an in-absentia psychiatric report on General Petro Hryhorenko,[14] who spoke against the human rights abuses in the Soviet Union.[15] Gluzman came to the conclusion that Hryhorenko was mentally sane and had been taken to mental hospitals for political reasons.[14] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Gluzman was forced to serve seven years in a labor camp and three years in Siberian exile for defending Hryhorenko against the charge of insanity.[15] On 28 November 1977, Amnesty International added Gluzman to its list of 92 members of the medical profession who were imprisoned for their political beliefs.[16] While in prison, Gluzman and fellow inmate Vladimir Bukovsky jointly wrote A Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents, published in Russian,[17] English,[18] French,[19] Italian,[20] German,[21] and Danish.[22]
In the 1980s, Gluzman (who was Jewish) turned down offers to migrate to Israel by "people sent from American synagogues" and even Soviet officials.[23]
In 1991, Gluzman founded the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association (UPA) as an independent mouthpiece and created a commission to address grievances about civil rights violations by mental health administrators.[24]
In recognition of his courage and commitment to ethical psychiatry, Gluzman was given the title of a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association and the title of an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1980.[25]
In 2008, Gluzman was honored with the Geneva Prize for Human Rights in Psychiatry, presented to him at the XIV Congress of the World Psychiatric Association in Prague, for exceptional courage and adherence to ideals of humanism, for renunciation of using psychiatry against political dissidents as well as for dissemination of ethical principles during the reform of mental health service in Ukraine.[26]
Gluzman coauthored many research papers covering psychiatry in Ukraine,[27] the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident,[28] their[whose?] risk perceptions,[29] suicidal ideation,[30] heavy alcohol use,[31] nicotine dependence,[32] and intimate partner aggression.[33]
Gluzman died on 16 February 2026, at the age of 79.[34][35]
Gluzman's publications
Books on Soviet psychiatry
- Gluzman, S. F.; Field, M. G.; Armes, K (1991). Soviet Psychiatry Today. Boston: Boston University, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy.
- Gluzman, Semyon (1989). On Soviet totalitarian psychiatry. Amsterdam: International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry. ISBN 90-72657-02-0.
Prose and poetry
- Gluzman, S. F. [Глузман С.Ф.] (2012). Рисунки по памяти, или воспоминания отсидента [Pictures drawn from memory, or the released dissident's memories]. Киев [Kyiv]: Издательский дом Дмитрия Бураго [Dmitry Burago's publishing house]. ISBN 978-966-489-121-6.
- Gluzman, S. F. [Глузман С.Ф.] (1994). Псалмы и скорби [Psalms and sorrows]. Харьков [Kharkiv]: Фолио [Folio]. ISBN 5-7150-0168-4.
- Маринович, Мирослав; Глузман, Семен; Антонюк, Зиновий (1997). Листи з волі [Letters from freedom] (in Ukrainian). Kyiv: Sfera. ISBN 978-966-7267-63-6.
Research papers in English without co-authors
- Gluzman, S. F. (May 2011). "The Chernobyl accident—a personal perspective". Clinical Oncology. 23 (4). Royal College of Radiologists, Great Britain: 306–307. doi:10.1016/j.clon.2011.01.504. PMID 21376548.
- Gluzman, S. F. (September 2001). "Law and psychiatry: the totalitarian experience". The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 29 (3): 330–335. PMID 11592462.
- Gluzman, S. F. (December 1991). "Abuse of psychiatry: analysis of the guilt of medical personnel". Journal of Medical Ethics. 17 (Supplement): 19–20. doi:10.1136/jme.17.Suppl.19. PMC 1378165. PMID 1795363.
- Gluzman, S. F. (16 September 1989). "World psychiatry and the Soviet Union". The Lancet. 334 (8664): 678–679. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(89)90923-9. PMID 2570928. S2CID 31524248.
- Gluzman, S. F. (January 1982). "Fear of freedom: psychological decompensation or existentialist phenomenon?". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 139 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1176/ajp.139.1.57. ISSN 1535-7228. PMID 7055278.
Research papers in English with co-authors
- Adams, R. E.; Guey, L. T.; Gluzman, S. F.; Bromet, E. J. (November 2011). "Psychological well-being and risk perceptions of mothers in Kyiv, Ukraine, 19 years after the Chornobyl disaster". The International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 57 (6): 637–645. doi:10.1177/0020764011415204. PMID 21813484. S2CID 19452535.
曾揭露精神疾病不實診斷並被關押七年的醫生、詩人兼出版商去世，享年79歲。
《經濟學人》
Doctor, poet and publisher who exposed bogus diagnoses of mental illness and spent seven years in the gulag, dies aged 79.
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