ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of the campaigns, together with the Soviet reaction to them. The months succeeding Honolulu were comparatively quiet in the international psychiatric arena. Western support of dissenters suffering psychiatric repression took many forms. Correspondence with dissenters themselves and their families was another feature of Western psychiatric activity, although the volume in this sphere was relatively slender. Low-Beer’s report and the American findings on P. Grigorenko not only had direct effects on the dissenters concerned but also on other victims of political psychiatry insofar as the ensuing publicity was a source of considerable embarrassment to the Soviet psychiatric establishment. The American Psychiatric Association made him a Corresponding Fellow in 1981 and the Royal College admitted him as an honorary member in early 1983. That the Soviet psychiatric establishment would co-operate with colleagues elsewhere in investigating complaints of psychiatric abuse in the USSR looked increasingly unlikely.
