Campaign against Psychiatric Abuse

The Campaign against Psychiatric Abuse (CAPA), British section of the Geneva initiating committee against abuses of psychiatry for political purposes struggled against the fate and treatment of prisoners detained in psychiatric hospitals and prison hospitals and against the systematic abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. The CAPA worked for the release of Jewish, Orthodox, and Protestant prisoners in the Soviet Union. It paid much attention to the 'Let Misha Go Campaign' aimed at the release of the young boy Misha whose mother Marina Voikhanskaya, a psychiatrist from Leningrad, was permitted to leave for Great Britain in 1975 and the campaign for the release of Semyon Gluzman, a psychiatrist from Kiev, arrested in 1972 because of his 'Analysis of expert clinical assessments of P. Grigorenko' and later famous for his 'Psalms and songs of sorrow' written in camps and in exile and published in 1994. The archives contain correspondence, bulletins, pamphlets, and other documents on the campaigns in the period 1975-1988.
The CAPA collection contains correspondence, bulletins, pamphlets, and other documents on the campaigns in the period 1975-1988.