Punative psychiatry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psikhushka
"Psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas and break them physically and mentally;
as such they were considered a form of torture"

KGB-style PUNITIVE PSYCHIATRY FOR AMERICAN DISSIDENTS:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg99253.html

http://barbarahartwell.blogspot.com/2006/12/kgb-style-punitive-psychiatry-for.html