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Approved For Release 2003/0944) Ae PH96 -00788R001300020001-6 ST-CS-—01-169--72 July 1972 APPENDIX IV THE "1961 DIRECTIVES” (U) Directives on the Immediate Hospitalization of Persons Mentally Ill Who are a Social Danger, Practice of Forensic Psychiatric Diagnosis, Research Handbook No. 6, under the editorship of G.V. Morozov, Ministry of Health of the USSR, Serbsky Central Research Institute of Forensic Psychiatry of the USSR, Moscow, 1962. Confirmed by the deputy minister of health of the USSR, I Kochergin, October 10, 1961. Number 04-14 32. Affirmed for Procurator of the USSR, by Deputy General Procu- rator of the USSR, A. Mishutin, October 10, 1961. Affirmed for the Ministry of Intermal Affairs of the RSFSR, by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR, P. Romashkov, October 9, 1961. In a number of instances the necessity for prevention of dangerous actions of persons mentally i11 requires their immediate hospita- lization in psychiatric institutions. In accordance with this: 1. If there is a clear danger from a person mentally ill to those around him or to himself the health organs have the right (by way of immediate psychiatric assistance) to place him in a psychiatric hospital without the consent of the person who is ill or his relatives or guardians. 2. In the psychiatric institution within 24 hours the sick person hospitalized must be examined by a special committee composed of three doctor-psychiatrists, which considers the question of correctness of hospitalization and determines the necessity for further presence in the hospital. The closest relatives are informed of the hospitalization of the sick person. 3. The basic indication for obligatory hospitalization is the social danger of the sick person as conditioned by the following particular features of his sick condition: a. Psychomotor excitation with a tendency towards aggressive actions; b. Deviant conduct accompanied by psychiatric disorder (hallucinations, deliriums, a syndrome of mental automatisn, 127 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300020001-6

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Approved For Release 2003/0944) Ae PH96 -00788R001300020001-6

ST-CS-—01-169--72
July 1972

APPENDIX IV

THE "1961 DIRECTIVES” (U)

Directives on the Immediate Hospitalization of Persons Mentally

Ill Who are a Social Danger, Practice of Forensic Psychiatric
Diagnosis, Research Handbook No. 6, under the editorship of G.V.
Morozov, Ministry of Health of the USSR, Serbsky Central Research
Institute of Forensic Psychiatry of the USSR, Moscow, 1962.

Confirmed by the deputy minister of health of the USSR,
I Kochergin, October 10, 1961. Number 04-14 32.

Affirmed for Procurator of the USSR, by Deputy General Procu-
rator of the USSR, A. Mishutin, October 10, 1961.

Affirmed for the Ministry of Intermal Affairs of the RSFSR,
by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR,
P. Romashkov, October 9, 1961.

In a number of instances the necessity for prevention of dangerous
actions of persons mentally i11 requires their immediate hospita-
lization in psychiatric institutions. In accordance with this:

1. If there is a clear danger from a person mentally ill to
those around him or to himself the health organs have the right
(by way of immediate psychiatric assistance) to place him in
a psychiatric hospital without the consent of the person who
is ill or his relatives or guardians.

2. In the psychiatric institution within 24 hours the sick
person hospitalized must be examined by a special committee composed
of three doctor-psychiatrists, which considers the question of
correctness of hospitalization and determines the necessity for
further presence in the hospital. The closest relatives are
informed of the hospitalization of the sick person.

3. The basic indication for obligatory hospitalization is
the social danger of the sick person as conditioned by the following
particular features of his sick condition:

a. Psychomotor excitation with a tendency towards aggressive
actions;

b. Deviant conduct accompanied by psychiatric disorder
(hallucinations, deliriums, a syndrome of mental automatisn,

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UNCLASSIFIED

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