Education
Dvorkin graduated Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 at the Saint Vladimir"s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New New York
Dvorkin graduated Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 at the Saint Vladimir"s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New New York
He has appeared on Russian television In 1993 with blessing of Patriarch Alexy II he established Russian anti-cult organization currently called Association of Centres for the Study of Religions and Sects (RATsIRS). From that time on he is extremely active in opposing non-Orthodox religions and movements through his publications.
"When a psychiatrist-academician (Dmitrieva, Sidorov) or an expert-psychologist of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences rely on the works by Dvorkin and Hassan, which do not belong to science, it is a symptom of degradation," said Yuri Savenko, the President of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia.
On March 21, 2012, the Russian appeals court rejected Dvorkin"s petition and also upheld the decision of the lower court. In May 2014 documents of Dvorkin from psychiatric clinic leaked to internet and this became subject of big amount of media publications.
The documents evidenced that Alexander Dvorkin was under psychiatric care for four years (from 1973 to 1977) in the Moscow Psycho-Neurological Clinic Near 3 with a series of mental illnesses and he spent one month in Moscow Psychiatric Hospital Near
14. Dvorkin confirmed in an interview with the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta the fact of him being taken in at the psychiatric hospital (an audio recording of the interview has been published by the newspaper).
The Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry in Moscow conducted an expertise in March 2014 on the medical psychiatric documents of Alexander Dvorkin and concluded that “The patient needs constant, continuous monitoring by a psychiatrist (visit a psycho-neurological clinic at least 1 time every 2 months, if necessary, hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital) and constant reception of psychotropic drugs”. Experts also concluded that the patient can"t do scientific work and has a tendency to dream up things.