[2] The Campaign involved national and international medical bodies[3] to reveal the monstrous abuse of human rights through the misuse of psychiatry.
[4] The English branch was set up on 5 September 1975[5] as the British section of the Action Committee Against Abuses of Psychiatry for Political Purposes[6] and composed of psychiatrists, other doctors, and laymen[7] including David Markham, Max Gammon, William Shawcross, George Theiner, James Thackara, Tom Stoppard, Marina Voikhanskaya, Eric Avebury,[8] Helen Bamber,[9] and Vladimir Bukovsky.
[12] Committees similar to the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse were later set up in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
[13] Campaigns of the British section of the group included a rally against psychiatric abuse in July 1976 in Trafalgar Square[7] and led to the release of Vladimir Borisov, Vladimir Bukovsky and Leonid Plyushch.
[2] The group issued correspondence, bulletins, and other documents which are deposited in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.