Punitive psychiatry in European style
As it turned out, not only in “totalitarian-soviet” Russia do they not understand the creative and civic torment of the artist Pavlensky, but also in the citadel of the arts and freethinking, tolerant European France. As the BBC news service reported on June 15, a French court extended the artist’s arrest pending trial on the basis of three psychiatric and one psychological examinations, which concluded that Pavlensky suffers from “delusional obsessions,” “borderline...
