RT Journal
A1 Reich W
T1 KAzanetz, schizophrenia, and soviet psychiatry
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1979
FD August 1
VO 36
IS 9
SP 1029
OP 1030
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780090115012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780090115012
AB To the Editor.— 
    I have been asked by the Chief Editor to comment on "Differentiating Exogenous Psychiatric Illness from Schizophrenia," by Etely Kazanetz, a Soviet psychiatrist (Archives 36:740-745, 1979), and to highlight the context from which the article emerges. The focus and plea of the article, which discusses the confounding of acute and chronic schizophrenia and the dangers of applying the latter diagnosis to the former, are well known in the West and are, in any case, not news. What is news, though, is that there is dissent in Soviet psychiatry; it is this message that emerges most importantly from the report, and it is this message that endows it with historic importance and renders it worthy of our closest attention.Etely Kazanetz is identified as being a research psychiatrist at the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry in Moscow. He apparently has published a number of papers on psychiatric diagnosis