ABSTRACT
The Commission’s members have repeatedly had their homes searched and documents and other Commission materials confiscated. To understand why a pressure group to combat political psychiatry became desirable in the late 1970s, people need to note the extent to which dissent was being suppressed by psychiatric means at that time. The Commission seeks the taking of effective measures to end the illegal practices of orderlies beating patients, of painful methods of treatment being used as ‘punishment’, and of other abuses. The Commission’s members have repeatedly had their homes searched and documents and other Commission materials confiscated. The Commission stimulated the development of the networks by appealing in most Bulletins for more information on listed individuals. Psychiatric witnesses were assembled, and in various ways judge made it impossible for him to conduct a proper defence. A further reason for homing in on him was that he also played a bold and vigorous part in other dissenting circles apart from the Commission.
