All In The Mind

Russian psychiatry was once a tool of the State. In the eyes of the Kremlin - there was fine line between political dissidence and mental illness, and the country's mental hospitals were isolating and perilous places, packed full. But today the landscape is changing, with community care on the increase. In the second of two programs from Europe, BBC psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud reports from a country where psychiatry has considerably improved its professional PR...

Transcript

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No transcript is available for this program due to copyright reasons. It was originally broadcast on the BBC World Service's Health Matters program.
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Further Information

Dr Raj Persaud's website
http://www.btinternet.com/~rajendra/

BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml

Health Matters - BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/health_matters.shtml

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