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Banished to a Greek island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rosalind Ramsay*
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University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London W1N 8AA
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In October, public attention focused on psychiatrists gathering for the Eighth World Congress in Athens. Was psychiatry still being abused for political purposes in the Soviet Union (Bloch, 1990)? And were mental patients elsewhere being mistreated? At the Stadium of Peace and Friendship overlooking the Aegean Sea, delegates had the chance to meet and talk about these important issues concerning human rights and human dignity.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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