״הוא לא יכול היה אחרת״. סיפורו האמיתי של הפסיכיאטר סמיון גלוזמן

He had no other choice. The true story of psychiatrist Semion Gluzman. Semyon Glazman never thought of himself as a hero. To him, he was simply a professional psychiatrist. He truly wanted to help people who suffered from severe mental illnesses. When he learned that in the Soviet Union, the mentally ill were being confined in psychiatric hospitals Even people who were neither from the Gaza Strip nor comfortable with the rule He decided to check whether they were truly mentally ill. He obtained an independent forensic psychiatric opinion. On General Pyotr Grigorenko who was active in the human rights movement. The Soviet psychiatry declared him mentally ill. However, Glazman concluded that there was no basis to regard him as a mentally ill person. On his professional and civic stance Gluzman sentenced to ten years of imprisonment Seven years in labor camps under a harsh regime And another three years of exile. Did Gluzman fear when he came out against the use of psychiatry? As tools of repression in the Soviet Union? Yes, he was afraid. Then why didn't the system's fear stop him? In the movie from the series, "Opposition and Madness on Time Channel" now They asked him the same question. He paused for a moment, smiling charmingly, and replied. But I knew it would come out alright. From another angle, they asked him if he regretted what had happened to him. Glazman said that each person lives their own life. I do not regret what has happened to me. Even though I didn't want what happened. I didn't want to go to jail, I was afraid of the gallows. And I had not the slightest desire to confront this organization. But thus did the Creator will that everything happen as it did. In one of his early articles, Gluzman wrote Inner God, God of the North God be with the steadfast in morality. When truth and lies stood face to face with him He truly chose and saved her. He couldn't, it had to be different. Semyon Fishelovich Glazman was born on the tenth of September 1946. Passed away on February 16, 2026 I first heard about him only a few days ago. His 80th birthday evening To which his physical body never managed to arrive. I would like to thank Simion Fishlevitz. With this video clip Perhaps it was because he couldn't have done otherwise. I hope and believe that her soul rests in peace. Hear my special thanks. At the beginning of his first year at the Institute of Medicine in Kifah Semyon arrived at the psychiatry club meeting. He continued a family tradition. His father, mother, and older brother were doctors. At the same meeting, he heard from the professor some things Never had he heard anything like it, neither before nor afterward. You must remember your future patients They are people who have been deprived of wealth. And other simple life documents. And if you are bad doctors, heartless and cruel, Just add to their suffering and intensify their tragedy. Golozman really wanted to help these people. He understood that the profession he had chosen was tragically destined by its very nature. At that time, even in my own home, psychiatrists were visiting the sick. In the capital and in the periphery, Two patients were lying in the same bed. If one of them had disturbed the bed, The second one also fell asleep peacefully. That was what Soviet psychiatry looked like. But the more Glazman saw these terrible places, That way, he was more certain that he actually wanted to be a psychiatrist. At that time, he heard on Western radio broadcasts. And he read in the article by the renowned writer Viktor Nekrasov On the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. The young doctor was shocked. Instead of bringing a person to trial as a criminal, He could have declared him a blue soul. And send him for indefinite, lifelong treatment. Such hospitals are called special. They were affiliated with the Soviet Interior Ministry system. People who committed serious crimes, truly mentally ill, held onto them. But they also sent opponents of the regime there. They were neither desirable nor comfortable for the regime. After they declared them mentally ill. What did the opponents of the regime want? What did the Soviet regime dislike so much? They wanted to live according to the law. The same law that the government itself repeatedly violated. They said politics should be moral. They told the truth. During the trial, Gluzman's lawyer approached him by the nickname by which he was known at the Sloboda house. She told him that she had spoken with his parents. They asked him to make sure they wouldn't stand for it. If their son receives the maximum sentence of ten years. Glazman asked what he could do. The lawyer advised him to retract. His mental focus on Brigurinko and to provide other testimony. But Glazman said he couldn't do it. That way, he will give them the opportunity to pursue other people. To him, it was like taking a rope and swinging himself around. He wanted to live. Glazman remained calm within the sentence itself. But the people who testified against him were afraid. A close friend of his gave testimony against him. Then he regretted it. But it was already impossible to change anything. Glazman spent all seven years in the camp. Without meeting his family. After being released from the camp And before he was sent to her for three years of exile, He wanted to see the same friend. To hug him, to calm him down And tell him that everything is fine and that he's not mad at him. But they didn't get to meet. Over the years at the camp, Glazman, Shabbat Rafeh, how many times? And he also survived his first heart attack. In one of the flash protests that took place, He is almost dead. In the end, he stopped the spanking. Because he understood that life is precious And he did not commit suicide. In the camp, he did something else. It seems almost impossible. He wrote the core section of the guide. To psychiatry, the regime's opponents. The idea for this guide came from Vladimir Bukovsky. One of the most well-known opponents of the Soviet regime. Bukovsky was arrested not once and also beaten brutally by force In psychiatric hospitals. He managed to write the preface. And after Na'aman Gluzman concluded the work And signed it with two names. Bukovsky and Gluzman. In 1976 he replaced Vladimir Bukovsky Lewis Carroll The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile. The very idea of a psychiatry guide It was almost inconceivable to oppose the regime. To a Soviet person. The guide explained how to talk to psychiatrists. How to defend oneself against a false psychiatric diagnosis so that the state could use it as a tool for interrogation. A doctor sitting in a goulag. Taught people how to defend themselves against doctors. They dismantled the totalitarian communist system. In his latest idea, Glazman said I had a hard time in prison. Famines, protests, and everything else. When I returned to Kief, which was still Soviet, There was no hatred. Perhaps because he was both my friend and my teacher, And because I learned much good from him. Semyon Glazman wrote poems in Gogol. One of them is in the translation by Solomon Leven. When is he? Later. And the day will return in a flurry of lines, Touches within the hidden signs. They took my son, Jacob, away, I can't bear it. Longing for the Hebrew. I am a thin, delicate, crispy cracker. On a dark night, Ori's dust flew into the sky. Dreams of words, declarations of silence, Jams and segments of disruption. Because the name "Briek" is written with words, Behind them, they tremble in place. Silence hurts the head from within. The world hurts, and she regrets it there. I'll break free from her clinginess, A balm of companionship for the soul. The works from the end of hope, Fear, trust, contemplation, and emotion. A candle on the chandelier, on this white son of this one, And in the word which is between forty, I'll take care of everything and deal with this. Sometime later, still in the haze.