 This led to legal actions that, for all intents and purposes, put people on trial for sorcery.The "Independent Psychiatric Journal" (Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal) documented such trials, demonstrating that the charges of “gross harm to mental health” were not substantiated.The Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia repeatedly recorded Kondratyev's activities and statements as the author of the pseudo-scientific theory of "sectomania", and documented the false charges for which he was responsible.