Tatyana Alekseevna Kotova (born 1948 ) - Soviet and Russian doctor , psychiatrist , Honored Doctor of Russia (1995), candidate of medical sciences , lieutenant colonel of the internal troops, former head and chief doctor of the Oryol Psychiatric Hospital of a specialized type (until 2012). Member of the Board of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists [1] .
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Content
- 1 Activities
- 2 Former Kotova patients
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Activities
In the early 1990s the activities of Kotova and the hospital she led came to the attention of the media after the journalist Gennady Mayorov published in the newspaper Sovetsky Sport (02.27.1991) an interview with a former employee of the Oryol hospital who spoke about the harsh conditions of political prisoners in her: “Of these wanted to make animals ” [2] . Tatyana Kotova, on behalf of the hospital, in 1992 filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity, expressing at the court “absolute confidence in the justice and inviolability of the principles of Soviet psychiatry”: as journalist Mark Deich noted in the trial report, “all prisoners in Oryol mental hospital, according to lieutenant colonel Kotova, were abnormal, it was necessary to treat them. Including dissidents. <...> Tatyana Kotova does not doubt the need to monitor the letters of patients, and the need for unbearably painful injections “for punishment” ” [3] . Dissident Vladimir Gershuni , who had been a prisoner in the Oryol hospital for three years, commented on Deich Kotova’s demarche:
In vain they started it. It would be better for the “doctors” of the Oryol psychiatric hospital to sit quietly: look, everything would be completely forgotten. True, neither I nor my comrades have forgotten anything [3] .
As G. Mayorov further noted, the court in Orel “was the first trial of this kind that aroused great interest among dissidents and human rights activists: after all, many of them still have not had the opportunity to publicly express their complaints with punitive medicine. <...> In the sentence, they searched for a “middle ground” for a long time. But the main defeat of the leaders of the special psychiatric hospital was that the process was covered not only in the USSR, but also abroad, and many famous people expressed their assessment of punitive medicine ” [2] .
In the post-Soviet period, Tatyana Kotova continued to work in the same place and in the previous position as the head doctor of the Federal State Institution “Oryol Psychiatric Hospital (Hospital) of a specialized type with intensive monitoring by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation”: as the magazine “Capital” noted, “continue to flourish in Russian psychiatry, and odious personalities such as <...> the head doctor of the Oryol special psychiatric hospital, lieutenant colonel of the internal service Tatyana Kotova, who stained themselves with the persecution of dissidents barking ” [4] . Participated in “round tables” on the topic “Protection of the rights of patients undergoing compulsory treatment. Social rehabilitation and public safety ” [5] .
Former Kotova Patients
Soviet dissidents ( years in prison in the Oryol psychiatric hospital ):
- Vladimir Gershuni (1969-1974),
- Andrei Derevyankin (1985-1987),
- Georgian George Kochiashvili ,
- Ukrainian Anatoly Lupinis (1980-1983),
- Yuri Petrovsky,
- Vladimir Titov, a former KGB officer, a member of the STC .
Notes
- ↑ Board of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists
- ↑ 1 2 G.N. Mayorov. I am a reporter. - M.: July 3, 2005. - S. 280-282.
- ↑ 1 2 M. Deutsch. Psychiatrists in civilian clothes // "New time", 1992, No. 41, p. 37.
- ↑ V. Voronov. Let the goat into the garden. // "Capital", 1993, No. 21, p. four.
- ↑ “Round table” on the topic “Protection of the rights of patients undergoing compulsory treatment (Inaccessible link) . Date of access July 24, 2013. Archived December 26, 2012.
Links
- Prokopenko A.S. Crazy Psychiatry // Punitive Psychiatry / Under the general. ed. A.E. Taras. - Moscow-Minsk: AST, Harvest, 2005 .-- S. 145, 146, 153, 154, 182, 195. - 608 p. - ISBN 5170301723 .