Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal
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Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal is a Russian peer-reviewed scientific journal
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 which covers clinical practice, issues of modern psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

, and results of studies by Russian and foreign psychiatrists. The journal is the official publication of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
The Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia is a non-state professional human rights organization.- History :The IPA was established in Moscow in March 1989 and became the first psychiatric association in the USSR which was not controlled by the State...

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The Higher Attestation Commission
Higher Attestation Commission
Higher Attestation Commission is a name of a national government agency in Russia, Ukraine and some other post-Soviet states that oversees awarding of advanced academic degrees...

 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has included Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal in the list of leading journals and publications.

The editor-in-chief is Yuri Savenko
Yuri Savenko
Yuri Sergeevich Savenko is a Russian psychiatrist, the president since 1989 of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia. He is also a member of the Council of Experts under the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. He holds M.D. and Ph.D...

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The journal is intended for doctors, psychologists, and lawyers, but also publishes materials interesting for lay persons and republishes works by Russian and Western doctors and philosophers which turned out to be inaccessible for a number of reasons.

There is open access to most issues of the journal.

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