[Hospitalization of the mentally ill without their consent in the USSR]

The author gives a detailed account of recent Soviet instruction of urgent hospitalization which is an important step in this area of psychiatric institutionalism. The new Soviet set-up is compared with analogous Czechoslovak regulations and the practice of admitting a patient without his consent. The author assumes that consequential adherence to the new Soviet instructions in practice should contribute to a reduction of the possible risk of abuse of psychiatry.